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Christian Government and the 
Sabbath. 




James Renwick Dill. 



CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 
AND THE SABBATH & & 



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JAMES RENWICK DILL, 

Author of "The Saloon a Nuisance 
and License Unconstitutional" 



Copyright 1903— JAMES RENWICK DILL 



HARPER & BROTHER COMPANY, 
Printers, Philadelphia 



CONGRESS, 
Two Copies Received 

FEB 9 1903 

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PREFACE. 



"Prepare ye the way of the Lord ; make His 
paths straifcfc* 

"Watch and pray," for "the coming of the 
Lord draweth nigh." 

The teaching of this little book is designed to 
be fundamental. It should result in advantage to 
the Individual, the Family, the Church, the State 
and the Nation. Its purpose is to present to the 
mind of the consecrated worker, the larger mean- 
ing of the petition in the Lord's Prayer, — "Thy 
Kingdom Come." Its philosophy is, — that, it 
is the aggregate of all right teaching in the past, 
together with the pouring out of the vials of 
God's wrath, that has procured for us all that is 
desirable in our present civilization: and, it will 
require the aggregate of all right teaching in the 
future, together with the pouring out of the re- 
mainder of God's wrath, to usher in the King- 
dom of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Its 



belief is, that, if all professing Christians, in true 
loyalty to Christ, would immediately accept its 
teaching, and in every sphere of human life and 
activity, act accordingly: the world would at 
once be dazzled, with the first gush of the re- 
splendent light of the dawn of the Millennial day. 
The purified — united Church of Christ, — is the 
great angel, that has the power to bind Satan in 
our great country, within the brief time-limit of 
any given period of twelve months. Let him that 
readeth say, ''amen" : "so it shall be." 



CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



Chapter L— Different Kinds of Government — To- 
gether With the Logical Natural 

Divisions of Scripture 5 

Chapter II. — A Definite and Undeniable Christian 
Basis of Government, Together 
With Important Definitions and 

Statements of Principles 13 

Chapter III. — Relationship of Different Orders or 

Kinds of Law 20 

Chapter IV. — Law of the First Order Continued, 
With Special Reference to Civil 

and Criminal Offenses 37 

Chapter V. — Law of the Second Order 45 

Chapter VI. — Law of the Third Order 50 

Chapter VII. — Scriptural Entrenchment Pointing 
to the New Heavens and the New 
Earth 62 

PART II. 

Chapter I. — The Sabbath a Sign 71 

Chapter II. — Advantages of a Well- Spent Sabbath 82 

Chapter III. — The Mind of Christ on the Sabbath, 

or the Sabbath for Man 08 



CHAPTER I. 

DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOVERNMENT — TOGETHER 

WITH THE LOGICAL NATURAL DIVISIONS 

OF SCRIPTURE. 

Civil Government is the science or polity that 
gives direction to matters of legislation, adminis- 
tration and judiciary decisions — touching the do- 
mestic, the educational, the industrial, the moral 
and the social interests of the people of a Com- 
monwealth, State or Nation. 

There are many forms of government and each 
particular form or kind is logically and naturally 
entitled to a corresponding basis. In the use of 
approximate language we will mention five kinds 
of government. 

First: — There is The Pagan Form of Govern- 
ment — where the interests, usages, institutions 
and customs of the people do rest upon and are 
directed from a purely pagan basis. The recent 
Boxer Uprising in China furnished to the world 
a suitable exhibition of the nature and character 
of the pagan form of government. The more en- 
lightened world-powers, however, have vigor- 



6 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

ously emphasized their disapproval of the con- 
duct of this lower type of government. 

Second : — There is The Semi-pagan Form of 
Government, where pagan institutions, usages 
and customs give way to Christian civilization 
as rapidly as the Christ-life is breathed into the 
people. The little Island Kingdom of Japan in 
the Far East is a suitable example of this kind of 
government. We believe, however, that the more 
advanced students of Bible ethics, as applied in 
matters of civil government and politics, cannot 
be fully satisfied with the present advancement of 
Christian civilization in the progressive little 
kingdom. 

Third : — There is The Secular Form of Gov- 
ernment — where the people once being enlight- 
ened, — but by apostasy have fallen into athe- 
ism, — the attempt is made to eliminate every 
Christian feature, usage, institution and custom, 
from the life of the State and Nation. The gov- 
ernment of France during the Reign of Terror 
did put herself on record, as the most perfect 
exhibition of Christless government to be found 
in the annals of history. "In the day when God 
inquireth after blood:" — "The souls from under 
the altar," will cry out against all those who 
helped foist it upon the people. 



AND THE SABBATH. 7 

Fourth: — There is The Semi-secular Form of 
Government, where the institutions, usages and 
customs of a country become secular, as rapidly 
as the Christ-life is eliminated from the life of 
the people. The German Empire to-day, comes 
into view as a suitable example of this form of 
government. * * * It is from this country, that 
many of our post-graduates return to join the 
ranks of the so-called Higher Critics, or to 
become the open allies of the "American Secu- 
lar Union." 

Fifth: — There is The Christian Form of Gov- 
ernment, where all the institutions, usages and 
customs of the country, do securely rest upon, 
and are directed from, a definite and undeniable 
Christian basis. The government of the United 
States and of Great Britain are often spoken of 
as suitable types of this form of government. 
But, when we consider the many hurtful institu- 
tions, usages and customs that are established, 
fostered and encouraged by measures, called 
statutes and laws : we fearlessly assert, that these 
great world-powers, boasting as they do of their 
higher civilization and free institutions, are 
scarcely more than Semi-Christian. The nearest 
approach to Christian Government was on splen- 
did exhibition during the latter years of the 



S CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

reign of king David, and during the first years 
of the reign of king Solomon, over The Great 
Theocracy of God's Covenant People — Israel. 

The Bible is logically and naturally divided 
into four parts. 

First: — A very large portion of the Inspired 
Book was written for the direction of the family. 
Herein is given the most minute direction to 
fathers and mothers and sons and daughters in 
the home. And if the instruction, so complete in 
every detail, thus given to the individual mem- 
bers of the household, be strictly observed and 
obeyed, it will result in the development of the 
Ideal Family. 

Second: — Another very large portion of the 
Bible was inspired of God, for the direction of 
the individual members of society, as to social 
conduct and manners. "The Golden Rule," ap- 
pears to be the briefest intelligible digest of the 
mind of Christ for the direction of men in the 
vast sphere of social relationships and condi- 
tions. If all men could be instructed to thor- 
oughly understand and fully obey the aggregate 
of the teaching of the Holy Spirit touching this 
momentous question, it would result in Ideal So- 
cialism. 

Third : — Another very large portion of the Sa- 



AND THE SABBATH. 9 

cred Writings was inspired of God for the di- 
rection of men in their relationship to Christ and 
the Church. In this marvelous division of Scrip- 
ture — the Invisible Church — the Bride, the 
Lamb's Wife, is instructed how to adorn her- 
self for her husband. In the immeasurable full- 
ness of its meaning — the entire Church of Christ 
— is fully furnished as to the important matters 
of doctrine, worship, discipline and government. 

Fourth : — It is estimated that nearly one-half 
of the entire Bible was inspired of God for the 
direction of men in the civil sphere. In this 
larger division of Scripture, frequent mention 
is made of judges, rulers, princes, kings, coun- 
tries, nations and kingdoms. Those in authority 
are designated as the ministers of God to the 
people for good and never for evil. 

"The God of Israel said, 'The Rock of Israel 
spake to Me; One that ruleth over men right- 
eously, that ruleth in the fear of God, He shall 
be as the light of the morning, when the sun 
riseth, a morning without clouds; when the ten- 
der grass springeth out of the earth, through 
clear shining after ram/ " 

This is the Divine order and who in unpar- 
donable presumption, will be responsible for the 
reversal of the same ? We live in a day and age, 



io CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

when we are resolved by the authority and power 
of the Spirit of the Father and the Son, to apply 
this division of Scripture to the conduct of men 
in the sphere for the which it was Divinely and 
incontrovertibly intended. Verily, if this portion 
of the Bible be not applied according to the Di- 
vine purpose, for the instruction and direction of 
the citizenship of countries and the rulers thereof, 
it must remain forever without a mission. If we 
suffer this important division of Scripture to be 
relegated from the sphere of its application, by 
those who presumptuously play with the deter- 
minate purpose of God, our so-called Higher Crit- 
ics may then, indeed, take a sharp scalpel and 
by legitimate surgery sever it from sacred con- 
nection and bury it with the obsolete. 

When the four logical natural divisions of 
Scripture given for the instruction and direction 
of the Family, Business and Social life, the 
Church and the State, are properly understood 
and obeyed by an ever-increasing circle of the 
disciples of Christ, the increased activities of 
the same in all lines of reformatory work will 
result in the promotion of the domestic, the edu- 
cational, the industrial, the moral and social wel- 
fare of all the people. A more enlightened citi- 
zenship will then come to understand the truth, 



AND THE SABBATH. u 

that, so long as a government will continue by 
hostile measures and enactments to mar, wound 
or crucify any one, or all of these vital interests 
of society, she ceases to be truly Christian, and 
must remain unworthy of the franchise of a 
Christian people. The entire Christian citizen- 
ship of the country must not only come to know 
that the law of Christ is of universal applica- 
tion; but to labor with untiring zeal and energy 
to indelibly impress the mind of the general pub- 
lic with the other fact, — that there is no sphere 
of human activity where man may escape the pen- 
alties which are to be inflicted for the violations 
of the same. Through the heralding of God's 
truth and the pouring out of the vials of His 
wrath, the entire race must eventually come to 
know that there is no sphere of human activity 
where man may pass from under the authority 
of the royal scepter of King Jesus. Regenerate 
men, in possession of the full splendor of the 
light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, are willing 
and loyal subjects in His vast domain ; while the 
vulgar, the profane and the unregenerate are 
subjects in rebellion. When the Divine purpose 
of the Father, as to the advent of Christ, shall 
have been fully achieved, the Son of God — the 
Providential Governor of the Universe — will rule 



m CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

the kingdoms of this world on a definite plan. 
When the full import of the meaning of the pe- 
tition in the Lord's Prayer, "Thy Kingdom 
Come," shall be fully understood and obeyed, 
Christ will be enthroned in the hearts of all the 
people. He will give direction to the domestic, 
the educational, the industrial, the moral and 
social interests of a redeemed race. 
"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, 
And from the River unto the ends of the earth. 
Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him ; 
All nations shall serve Him." 

The supreme motive of love to Christ should 
lead all Christians in the exercise of the higher 
patriotism, to labor with untiring zeal and en- 
ergy in the promulgation of the doctrine of the 
mediatorial and universal authority of the once 
crucified,— but now risen, glorified and exalted 
Redeemer. We have discovered, moreover, that 
it is the imperative duty of all men in every 
sphere of human activity, as soon as they re- 
ceive instruction, to render willing obedience to 
every requirement of the Law of Christ, in order 
that they may continue to be civil. 



CHAPTER II. 

A DEFINITE AND UNDENIABLE CHRISTIAN BASIS 
OF GOVERNMENT, TOGETHER WITH IMPOR- 
TANT DEFINITIONS AND STATEMENTS 
OF PRINCIPLES. 

Christian Government — together with every 
Christian institution, usage and custom is logi- 
cally and naturally entitled to rest upon a Defi- 
nite and Undeniable Christian Basis. The Chris- 
tian Family, the Christian Church and the Chris- 
tian Nation are all entitled to rest upon such a 
basis, and it is illogical, as well as unnatural, that 
any such institution should be required to rest 
upon any other basis. The day is coming, more- 
over, when a Christian people will be filled with 
amazement at the thought of the advocacy of any 
other for a single moment. It cannot be expected 
that a secular people will tolerate for a single 
decade a Christian basis of government, and it 
should be regarded as preposterous, that a Chris- 
tian people should tolerate for a single decade a 
secular basis of government. Absolute chemical 
opposites have no true affinity. Oil and water 

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i 4 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

do not mingle; fire and water are enemies 
and when brought into conflict there can be 
no quarters, one or the other must yield and 
finally succumb. A similar law prevails as 
to the spiritual chemistry of Bible ethics, when 
applied to this question. The word which first 
came down from heaven in the days of the great 
Apostle, having descended through the ages, is 
still ringing in our ears to-day : — 

"Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: 
For what fellowship have righteousness and in- 
iquity ? or what communion hath light with dark- 
ness? And what concord hath Christ with Be- 
lial? or what portion hath a believer with an 
unbeliever? and what agreement hath a temple 
of God with idols? for ye are a temple of the 
living God; even as God said, I will dwell in 
them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, 
and they shall be My people. Wherefore come 
ye out from among them, and be ye separate, 
saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing ; And 
I will receive you, And will be to you a Father, 
And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith 
the Lord Almighty." 

In the discussion of this fundamental subject 
we will strive to attain to the utmost simplicity 
and plainness. The Lord Jehovah at one time, 



AND THE SABBATH. 15 

instructed His prophet to write the lesson on 
tables, as did the Angel of the Covenant on 
Mount Sinai, and make it plain that the person 
running in the world's dizzy whirl of business 
might be able to read the same. Following this 
suggestion, we humbly and prayerfully entreat 
that God's great army of Christian workers may 
carefully ponder the following definitions and 
statements of principles, together with the suc- 
ceeding diagram : 

Christian Government — is the science or polity 
that gives direction to matters of legislation, ad- 
ministration and judiciary decisions, touching 
the domestic, the educational, the industrial, the 
moral and social interests of the people of a Com- 
monwealth, State or Nation, in accordance with 
the "Golden Rule," the "Sermon on the 
Mount" and the "Teaching of the Decalogue." 

It is in conflict with the mind of Christian 
Citizenship and antagonistic to the Christian 
Basis of Government, to continue to tolerate leg- 
islative enactments which are found to be either 
in direct or indirect conflict with the Law of 
Christ. 

A Christian Citizen can never be justified in 
assuming an official position, where in the inau- 
gural oath, calling upon Almighty God for as- 



16 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

sistance, he is sworn to administer iniquitous 
measures which are in direct conflict with the 
Law of Christ. 

All legislative enactments which are found 
to be in perfect conformity to the Law of 
Christ are laws in fact, whilst all statutory 
enactments which are found to be in conflict 
with the same are not laws at all. They are 
Infamous Measures. 

All legislative enactments which are in per- 
fect conformity to the Law of Christ, when exe- 
cuted, administered and enforced will result in 
"The greatest good to the greatest number;" 
whilst all those measures which are in conflict 
with the Law of Christ will result in the great- 
est ill to the greatest number. 

All legislative enactments which are found to 
be in perfect conformity to the Law of Christ, 
when executed, administered and enforced, will 
not only tend to promote that which is right, but 
will of necessity prohibit that which is wrong; 
whilst all those measures which are in direct con- 
flict with the Law of Christ, when executed, ad- 
ministered and enforced, will not only tend to pro- 
mote that which is wrong, but will of necessity 
prohibit that which is right. This principle is 
in perfect conformity to Blackstone's Definition 



AND THE SABBATH. v? 

of Law, viz., "Law is that which is enacted by 
the supreme power of the State, commending 
that which is right and prohibiting that which is 
wrong." It is also in perfect conformity with his 
other valuable statement, viz., "That is not law 
which conflicts with the Law of God." More- 
over, it is also in perfect conformity with the 
mind of the Supreme Court of the United States, 
as is expressed in the following language (after 
calling to mind the more recent declaration of 
the Supreme Court,) that, "This is a Christian 
Nation:" our minds naturally revert back to a 
former glorious declaration of this same great 
tribunal that, "No legislature can bargain away 
the public health, the public morals and the pub- 
lic safety. The people themselves may not do it, 
much less their servants. Government was or- 
ganized with a view to their preservation, and 
cannot divest itself of the power to provide for 
them." 

The Officers of State, in a Christian Republic, 
no matter what their party affiliations may be, 
should be made to understand that they are the 
public servants; and that all acts of legislation, 
administration and judiciary decisions shall be in 
perfect conformity to the Law of Christ, as pro- 
vided for in a Christian basis of government. 



18 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

The officer or citizen in a Christian Repub- 
lic, who will barter or sell the righteous and in- 
dependent use of his franchise, or who will pur- 
chase the franchise of another, should either be 
deported or disfranchised for life. 

May "The True Light, which lighteth every 
man that cometh into the world," shine upon 
these pages, and enable the author to so indeli- 
bly write the lesson on the mind of every reader, 
that it may serve God's unerring purpose and 
never be forgotten. Selah * * * Pause * * * 
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CHAPTER III. 

RELATIONSHIP OF DIFFERENT ORDERS OR KINDS OF 
LAW. 

In a careful analysis of this diagram, we will 
strive not only to attain to a demonstration of 
the Christian Basis of Government, but we will 
also labor to furnish to our readers an accurate 
analysis of the relationship of the different or- 
ders or kinds of law as it exists in God's plan, 
and as it will be received by all nations, peoples, 
kindreds and tongues, "when the Lord Jesus, 
shall take unto Him His great power and reign." 
The genius of the skilled mechanic, as to method 
of procedure in the construction of the edifice or 
temple, beginning with the foundation and fin- 
ishing with the dome, in accordance with law ; is 
but faintly suggestive of the more delicate laws 
of the spiritual mechanics, which are to be em- 
ployed by the disciples of Christ in the establish- 
ment of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. 

Beginning at the bottom of this diagram we 
will now bound its lower section, and after read- 
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22 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

LAW OF THE FIRST ORDER. 

The First Table of the Law is the Perfect Bill 
of God's rights ; and the Second Table of the Law 
is the Perfect Bill of Human Rights. In reference 
to the First Table of the Law, the devout Chris- 
tian will be ready to concede that there is no 
sphere of existence to which the rights of God 
do not extend. Jehova-Jesus, — known as the 
Angel of the Covenant in the days of Moses, — is 
the Divinely Appointed King. He is seated upon 
His great throne in the heavens; He is the au- 
thor of this law; He is the Mediatorial Channel 
of all righteousness ; He is the irresistible dispen- 
ser of all providences. His dominion is over 
angelic hosts, and over the spirits of just men 
made perfect. His authority extends to all crea- 
tures of earth, to every vicissitude of the animal, 
vegetable and mineral kingdoms. It extends to 
all things animate and inanimate, material and 
immaterial. It reaches to the lowest depths of 
hell, and binds with everlasting chains all devils 
and the souls of unredeemed men. We know 
that Queen Victoria had a long, glorious and 
peaceful reign; but she never dispensed a provi- 
dence resulting in that peace. She was but a 
feeble instrument in the providential administra- 
tion of this King. We are addressing persons 



AND THE SABBATH. 23 

in the mortal state, however, and it is our in- 
tense desire to indelibly impress upon the mind 
of every rational creature of earth, the important 
lesson of man's accountability to Christ and His 
Law. We would especially urge upon all those 
who love God with perfect love, that they do 
strive to keep the First Table of the Law in- 
violate. We beseech all men, moreover, that they 
hold themselves as under law, and accountable 
to Christ in every sphere of human life and ac- 
tivity. We would impress all men with the fact 
that it is their imperative duty as well as their 
highest privilege to love God with all their heart, 
soul, strength and mind all the time and every- 
where. And men cannot love God with such su- 
preme affection, unless they do willingly strive 
to keep the First Table of the Law. 

The All-Wise Law Giver arranged the princi- 
ples of the Decalogue in a perfectly logical and 
natural order. The arrangement is the unmis- 
takable manifestation of the wisdom of God for 
the promotion of duty and the prevention of sin. 
The order of the arrangement may neither be 
transposed nor reversed. Whosoever would 
change the Divine order will directly prove his 
own fallibility in tampering with the wisdom of 
the Infallible. The First Commandment is first 



24 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

in order and first in place, because it moves the 
Christian father and mother to direct the first 
dawning of the intelligence of the child to the one 
living and true God, as the supreme object of 
love, devotion and adoration. This is God's 
method of anchorage to the succession of Chris- 
tian generations, to keep them from drifting 
into secularism or back into paganism. The 
Angel of the Covenant knew full well that if the 
children could be instructed from generation to 
generation to know, love, adore and continually 
worship the three one God, it would not only re- 
sult in the preservation of Christian civilization 
from the ruinous and blasting curse of secular- 
ism ; but it would continue to hold a once enlight- 
ened people from lapsing again into paganism. 
If we may thus be quickened and moved by the 
power of the Holy Spirit, to train the children of 
the coming generations in accordance with the 
teaching of the First Commandment, it will ren- 
der them forever secure against the violations of 
the Second Commandment. With grace in the 
heart, and with such training, the children of the 
King will never be found making idols, neither 
will they be found bowing down to worship the 
same. When all the people shall thus be schooled 
into loyal obedience to the First and Second 



AND THE SABBATH. 25 

Commandments they will then willingly strive to 
keep the Third Commandment ; and joy be to the 
world, when the blatant voice of the vulgar 
and the profane shall be hushed in all our bor- 
ders! O happy day; when the names, titles, at- 
tributes, ordinances, works, and worship of God 
shall come to be revered by all men in the com- 
ing higher Christian civilization! If by a mira- 
cle of grace, we may thus be enabled to school 
all men everywhere and all the time from the su- 
preme motive of love to God and Christ, to keep 
the First, Second and Third Commandments in 
exact accordance with the Divine order; we will 
joyfully discover that they have already been 
schooled into loyal and perfect obedience to the 
Fourth Commandment. They will ever be on 
exhibition. * * * "They will be living epistles 
known and read of all men." * * * They will 
be the living verities of the wisdom of God in 
thus schooling men to "Remember the Sabbath 
day to keep it holy," in harmony with the exact 
order of the arrangement of the principles of the 
First Table of the Law, in the impartation of 
the lessons that begin with the First Command- 
ment and end with the Fourth. This is the logi- 
cal natural method of the teaching. It is the God 
given method of schooling men into true loyalty 



26 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

to Christ and the Sabbath. Moreover, if we may 
thus succeed in bringing all men into perfect 
obedience to the First Table of the Law, they 
will never cease to own, and publicly recognize 
the Mediatorial Authority of King Jesus. They 
will then be willing in every sphere of life and ac- 
tivity to recognize the perpetual and binding au- 
thority of the matchless and unerring Law of 
Christ. O happy Day, when such a reformation 
shall have been achieved! The Christian people 
will then unite in alleluiahs of praise to the great 
Law Giver for the efficacious advantages that will 
ever be accruing to an advancing civilization, from 
the constantly increasing number of persons who 
are being schooled into due respect to the perfect 
bill of God's rights, as contained in the First 
Table of the Law. 

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A certain lawyer once came to Jesus desiring 
to assist the Jewish Rabbis and Pharisees in en- 
trapping Him in His language, that they might 
arraign Him before Caesar. In this attempt the 
lawyer asked the Saviour the fundamental ques- 
tion. 

"And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and 
tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to 
inherit eternal life ? And He said unto him, What 



AND THE SABBATH. 27 

is written in the law? how readest thou? And 
he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind ; and 
they neighbor as thyself. And He said unto 
him, Thou hast answered right; This do, and 
thou shalt live." 

The answer of the lawyer was given in a 
single sentence containing two propositions. It 
was the embodiment of the entire teaching of 
the First and Second Tables of the Law. Love to 
God and love to man is all that we find in the 
Decalogue, and it is all that we find in the Gospel. 
Thus the Law is merged into the Gospel and love 
is the fulfillment of both. Jesus knew full well 
that if we could prevail upon all men to love God 
supremely, they would strive earnestly to keep 
the principles of the First Table of the Law, in 
the exact order of their occurrence. He knew 
also, that if we could prevail upon all men to 
love their neighbors as themselves, they would 
strive to keep the commandments in the Second 
Table of the Law, in the exact order of their oc- 
currence. In a careful study of the Second 
Table of the Law we discover again the infinite 
wisdom of the Divine arrangement. As it is, 
regarding the arrangement of the principles in 



28 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

the First Table of the Law, so it is regarding 
the arrangement of the principles in the Second 
Table. The order of the arrangement may 
neither be reversed, transposed or displaced. 
The great Law Giver knew with what principle 
to begin, and with what principle to end in each, 
for the better promotion of duty and for the bet- 
ter prevention of sin. In the study of the prin- 
ciples of the Second Table of the Law, the 
place to begin is in the family, and the time to 
begin is with childhood. It was the plainly evi- 
dent purpose of the Great Law Giver that Chris- 
tian parents should instruct their children first of 
all to love God, the Great Parent of all, su- 
premely ; and after that to love father and mother 
and sister and brother with true filial affection 
resulting in reverential obedience. The embodi- 
ment of this truth is seen both in the spirit and 
letter of the Fifth Commandment, which is the 
First Commandment in the Second Table of the 
Law, as well as the First Commandment with a 
promise resulting from obedience. It is in the 
family that children must have imparted to them 
the first lessons of submission to the rightful au- 
thority of their superiors. Children must be in- 
structed from the standpoint of filial love and 
•bedience. to reverence father and mother and 



AND THE SABBATH. 29 

sister and brother, in order that they may respect 
the rights of superiors, inferiors and equals in 
the larger sphere of citizenship upon which they 
are destined soon to enter. This is God's method 
in the evolution of the social conscience, in 
schooling men into respectful obedience to right- 
ful authority. They are thus prepared for enter- 
ing upon the larger sphere of industrial life and 
citizenship. They are thus trained to respect the 
life and property rights of others. They are thus 
educated away from secularism, scepticism, athe- 
ism, paganism and covetousness which is idol- 
atry. They are thus educated away from an- 
archy. Indeed this is the only way to extirpate 
anarchy. This is the God-given method of pro- 
tecting a man's pocketbook, and when you protect 
a man's pocketbook, you protect his life. If we 
may thus succeed in educating the children of the 
successive generations to respect God and pa- 
rental authority in accordance with the First Com- 
mandment in each table of the law, we shall have 
succeeded in schooling them into loyal obedience 
to every other commandment in the Decalogue. 
Christian fathers and mothers, as you love home 
and country, we plead that you get back to the 
old-time method of training your children in the 
nurture, fear and admonition of the Lord; and 



30 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

that in the adding of "line upon line, and precept 
upon precept," the children of the entire nation 
may speedily be brought into due respect to pa- 
rental authority. The miraculous exercise of the 
grace of God in the hearts of men, will eventu- 
' ally bring the world into loyal obedience to the 
Law of Christ as outlined in the Ten Command- 
ments, and, such consummation of all right teach- 
ing will result in the perfection of the domestic, 
the educational, the industrial, the moral and so- 
cial welfare of all the people. The Lord Jesus 
Christ can require no more than this concerning 
the inhabitants of this world, and the Christian 
citizenship of this entire country should demand 
no less. We plead for such an evolution of the 
social conscience. We plead for the universal 
recognition of the Perfect Law of Liberty in the 
paramount interests of universal manners and 
morals. We plead for such universal recognition 
of the Law of Christ in the interests of civil de- 
portment ; for, no man ever yet committed either 
a civil or criminal offense which did not result 
either in a direct or indirect violation of one or 
more principles of the Decalogue. Thus, we in- 
troduce to the world the incontrovertible — 



AND THE SABBATH. 31 

MAXIM. 

It is absolutely impossible for a citizen in any 
country, under any form of government, ever to 
commit a civil or criminal offense which does not 
result either in a direct or indirect violation of one 
or more principles of the Decalogue. * * * 
Hence, the Decalogue is the Christian Basis of 
Government. In its First Table it is the Perfect 
Bill of God's rights. In its Second Table it is 
the Perfect Bill of Human Rights. This being 
true, it is the duty of every Christian to labor with 
untiring zeal and energy to arouse the entire 
world of believers to an adequate comprehension 
of the universal scope of the meaning of the peti- 
tion in the Lord's Prayer : — 

THY KINGDOM COME, 

and thereby lift every interest of humanity nearer 
to the throne of the world's Mediatorial King — 
our interceding High Priest. Such extended en- 
deavor would speedily remove the curse entailed 
by sin. Such marvelous working of the Lord's 
leaven would soon restore to our world the para- 
dise of God. Such endeavor would encore the 
angels, who sang at the first advent of Christ, to 
sing the same enrapturing song as prophecy ful- 
filled : "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth 



32 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

peace, good will to men." When this glorious 
dawning of the Millennial Age shall begin to 
burst upon our world with the coming flood of 
light above the brightness of the sun; the New 
Jerusalem will not then have so far to descend; 
when the world of temporal, moral, spiritual and 
eternal interests borne upon her rejuvenated 
bosom, shall have so far ascended. "Truth will 
then meet mercy and they will mutually kiss each 
other." In that glorious day the redeemed 
masses being infused with the Spirit of the 
Father and the Son, will render willing and loyal 
obedience to every requirement of the Law of 
Christ in every sphere of life and activity for a 
thousand years at once. Could we arrive at such 
beatific conditions in a single hour, the fullest in- 
tention of the petition in the Lord's prayer, "Thy 
Kingdom Come," would be fully realized in the 
same time. We must, therefore, conclude that 
the First Table of the Law is the Perfect Bill 
of God's Rights; and the Second Table of the 
Law is The Perfect Bill of Human Rights; and 
the Decalogue in the wide range of its meaning 
is 

LAW OF THE FIRST ORDER. 

It is law of the first order; it is the product 



AND THE SABBATH. 33 

of the mind of a first rate being and it never can 
be amended. It is a perfect code of law ; it has 
continued for nearly four thousand years and no 
mere human intellect has ever yet been able to 
attach a single amendment. 

It is narrated that a Christian gentleman once 
approached an infidel judge with the questions: 
"Judge, have you ever studied the Decalogue, as 
to the wisdom of the order of the arrangement of 
its principles and the teaching therein set forth? 
Have you not discovered that it is a perfect code 
of law ; that it is law of the first order ; that it is 
the product of an All-wise Mind, and that it never 
can be amended?" 

The Judge replied : "Sir, I have never entered 
into a careful analysis of the Decalogue, either 
as to the wisdom of the arrangement of the or- 
der of its principles or the teaching therein set 
forth. Yet, I am of the opinion that it is not the 
product of an All-wise Mind, and that it is not a 
perfect code of law." 

The Christian man replied : "Judge, if the Dec- 
alogue be not a perfect code of law, and if it be not 
the product of an All-wise Mind, you should be 
able to amend it." 

The Judge, presumptuous as are all Atheists, 
replied: "Sir, I believe T can amend the Deca- 



34 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

logue. I will enlarge upon its teaching, and if 
you will return after three days, I trust I shall be 
able to present you with an improved Decalogue." 

It is narrated that the Judge studied the ques- 
tion during the three days with all the powers of 
his mighty intellect, looking at the principles of 
the Decalogue one by one. First in the order of 
their occurrence, then from a reversed order, 
then from a repeatedly transposed order, and 
back again to the order of their occurrence. For- 
ward and backward, from every side and from 
every point of view, he did search for a vulner- 
able point of attack until the time limit was ex- 
hausted, but it was all of no avail. 

At the appointed time the Christian man re- 
turned and inquired : "Judge, have you, in the ap- 
plication of your new doctrine of expansion, suc- 
ceeded in amending the Decalogue?" 

The Judge in honest confession replied: "Sir, 
I have failed to make any improvement. I be- 
lieve I have impaired the law at every point in 
which I have touched it." 

The Christian man answered: "Well, then, 
Judge, do you concede that the Decalogue is the 
product of an All-wise Mind, that it is a perfect 
code of law, and that it never can be amended?" 

The Judge replied: "No, sir, I am not yet 



AND THE SABBATH. 35 

ready so to yield the question. I am now of the 
opinion that I can improve upon the Decalogue 
by putting its teaching into smaller compass." 

The Christian man answered : "How long time 
do you desire now, Judge, in which to accom- 
plish the task?" 

The Judge replied : "Give me three days again. 
Come back to me at the end of three days, and I 
will hope to be able to present you with a copy 
of an improved Decalogue." 

The Christian man returned at the end of the 
second probation and inquired : "Judge, have you 
succeeded in the application of the theory of com- 
pression in amending the Decalogue, either as to 
the wisdom of the arrangement of its principles, 
or the teaching therein set forth?" 

Again, the Judge made honest confession, 
which was as the dew of Mount Hermon to his 
soul. He replied: "I do humbly confess that 
I have utterly failed again, at every point at 
which I have touched the Decalogue for its im- 
provement. But I have made a discovery of in- 
estimable value in a progressive series of facts. 
I have weighed the important question from 
every available standpoint, as I have studied no 
other subject; I vaguely prayed for light; I did 
the best I could ; I have discovered that the Dec- 



36 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

alogue is the product of an All-wise Mind ; it is 
the Perfect Law of Liberty ; it is a perfect code of 
law and never can be amended, either by expan- 
sion or compression ; it is designed for the promo- 
tion of all duty, and the prevention of all sin; 
there is a God; He is the author of the Moral 
Code ; He is the Creator of all things ; He is the 
Redeemer of men ; He is my God and Saviour." 

* * * "Praise God from whom all blessings 
flow!" shouted the Christian man. * * * 

A similar course of study on the part of all 
unbelievers should result in freeing a sin-tossed 
world from the blasting, withering curse of Athe- 
ism. It might, indeed, prove the shortest road to 
conversion, 



CHAPTER IV. 

LAW OF THE FIRST ORDER CONTINUED WITH 

SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CIVIL AND 

CRIMINAL OFFENSES. 

The question now evolves itself upon us to con- 
sider the matter of civil and criminal offenses. 
The Christian Citizen must eventually come into 
clear possession of the fact, as previously ex- 
pressed in the Maxim: That all civil and crimi- 
nal offenses must logically and naturally result 
either direct or indirect violations of the princi- 
ples of the Decalogue. Even a partial enumera- 
tion of civil and criminal offenses should prove 
entirely sufficient to establish in the mind of 
every reader the truth of the Maxim. 

Does the offense consist in the pagan woman, 
casting her new-born babe into the River Nile, or 
into the River Hudson in devotion to her idol? 
It is in violation of the First, Second and Sixth 
Commandments. Does it consist in covetous- 
ness, the well-developed modern form of idola- 
try? It is in violation of the First, Second and 
Tenth Commandments; and in a still more ag- 

37 



38 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

gravated form it may lead its possessor into vio- 
lations of more than half the principles in the 
Decalogue. Does it include vulgar jests, slang- 
phrases, profane swearing and open blasphemy? 
It is irreverence to God as set forth in the First 
and Second Commandments ; it is in direct vio- 
lation of the Third and Seventh Commandments ; 
and like the muffled rumblings of volcanic action 
under great agitation, it is liable at any moment 
to lava a whole community with the immorali- 
ties that flow from depraved hearts through the 
blatant mouths of the defiled craters. Do we dis- 
cover its fermentations in the so-called Sunday 
sports and amusements, such as card-playing, 
gambling, excursions, the ball-room, theater-go- 
ing, drunkenness, licentiousness, et al , etc.? It 
is in positive violation of the Fourth Command- 
ment, — and it may lead its unsanctified victims to 
open and flagrant violations of all the principles 
in the Decalogue in a single day: — and pave the 
way for the dooming of many of them to the 
State's prison and to perdition in the same time. 
Does it lead men of the baser sort, to indulge in fla- 
grant violations of the wholesome laws of social 
purity and manners ? Like sons of Belial, do they 
venture to outrage the simplicity and confiding 
integrity of childhood? Do they dare to sacrifice 



AND THE SABBATH. 3 c> 

upon the altar of lust the modest and blushing 
honor of Womanhood? It is in infamous viola- 
tion of the Seventh Commandment. Does it con- 
sist in ungovernable passion, resulting in direct 
assault and battery? It is rankling murder at 
heart, and is in violation of the Sixth Command- 
ment. Is it discovered in the conduct of men, re- 
sulting in petty or grand larceny of felonous na- 
ture? It is in violation of the Eighth and Tenth 
Commandments and often leads to direct viola- 
tions of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments. 
Does the offense consist in suicide or homicide? 
It is in violation of the Sixth Commandment. 
Thus we may encompass the entire catalogue of 
civil and criminal offenses, and we are forced to 
accept the truth of the — 

MAXIM. 

It is absolutely impossible for a citizen in any 
country under any form of government, ever to 
commit a civil or criminal offense, which does not 
result either in a direct or indirect violation of 
one or more principles of the Decalogue. Hence 
the Decalogue is 

THE CHRISTIAN BASIS OF GOVERNMENT. 

It is not only the Perfect Bill of God's Rights ; 
but it is the Perfect Bill of Human Rights as 



40 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

well. It is not only the schoolmaster to train the 
vulgar, the profane, the ungodly, the socialist and 
the anarchist to civil conduct and manners ; but 
it is the forerunner of the Gospel to bring them 
to Christ. But to those of us who are led by the 
Spirit of God, we are not under the law as a cove- 
nant of works ; but from the paramount motive 
of love to God and Christ, we are obedient unto 
the law as of grace. We desire, in passing, to 
leave this truth in the repository of the mind 
of every reader: If a person will break any one 
commandment in the Decalogue, in the sphere of 
official life and citizenship, if the matter comes to 
the knowledge of the courts, the disturbance en- 
suing therefrom will be designated either as a 
civil or criminal offense. 

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, 
which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasclv- 
iousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jeal- 
ousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies, envy- 
ings, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of 
the which I forewarn you, even as I did fore- 
warn you, that they which practice such things 
shall not inherit the Kingdom of God." 

And we may add without fear of contradiction : 
Neither are they worthy of citizenship in a Chris- 
tian country. But "The fruit of the Spirit is love, 



AND THE SABBATH. 41 

joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, 
faithfulness, meekness, temperance: against such 
there is no law. And they that are of Christ 
Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions 
and the lusts thereof. If we live by the Spirit, 
by the Spirit let us also walk." 

Such persons are obedient unto law, in the 
spirit of the Gospel and from the supreme motive 
of love to God and Christ: and in the important 
sphere of official life and citizenship, these alone 
are worthy of the confidence and franchise of a 
Christian people. This line of reasoning brings 
us into intelligent possession of the praiseworthy 
motives which led our Puritan Fathers together 
with our higher patriots down through the cen- 
turies, to re-enact, either in a direct or indirect 
manner, every principle of The Decalogue, for the 
promotion and the protection of the peace and 
good order of society. Such statutory enactments 
should be protected in turn and rendered forever 
secure, by being made to rest upon 

A DEFINITE AND UNDENIABLE CHRISTIAN BASIS OF 
GOVERNMENT. 

With such a basis of government, we should 
be able to maintain as constitutional from genera- 
tion to generation all statutory enactments which 



42 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

are found to be in harmony with the Law of 
Christ, and at the same time we should be able 
to set aside as unconstitutional all Statutory en- 
actments which are found to be in conflict with 
the same. Thus the Christian citizenship of this 
greatest of all republics may be able to eliminate 
all the ills that afflict society and speedily bring 
to pass the answer to the prayer — 

THY KINGDOM COME. 

The Law of Christ *as outlined in the Deca- 
logue, in its two tables, expressing the Rights 
of God and the Rights of Man, is Supreme 
Organic Law ; it is Supreme Independent ; it is 
Supreme Perfect; it is the Perfect Law of Lib- 
erty. It is Supreme Organic: because its author 
has laid the foundation of every righteous institu- 
tion over which the jurisprudence of law exists. 
It is Supreme Independent: because its author is 
the only self-existent independent law-giver in 
the universe. It is Supreme Perfect : it has con- 
tinued for nearly four thousand years and no 
mere human intellect has ever yet been able to at- 
tach a single amendment. It is the Perfect 
Law of Liberty: because when perfectly exe- 
cuted, administered and enforced it will result in 
the highest liberty to all. And speaking rever- 



AND THE SABBATH. 43 

ently: the Lord Jesus Christ — known in the be- 
ginning as the Word, and at the time of the giv- 
ing of the Law as the Great I Am, — or the Angel 
of The Covenant — is so perfect in all that He does 
that He cannot amend this law Himself. How 
important then, that every citizen should conform 
his life to every requirement of the Law of 
Christ, for the general good of all. Supreme Or- 
ganic Law is master of all other law; and all 
other law is its servant. It is always the pre- 
rogative of a master to command and of a ser- 
vant to obey. Let the Christian Citizenship of 
this great Republic secure a right commander in 
fundamental law, and we will command right, 
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CHAPTER V. 

LAW OF THE SECOND ORDER. 

In the further consideration and pursuance of 
the study of this diagram, our readers will dis- 
cover that we designate the Constitution to be 
Law of the Second Order, by making it to rest 
upon and obey its master, 

LAW OF THE FIRST ORDER. 

At this point in the discussion the advocates 
of the supremacy of the Law of Christ have had 
many a conflict with the enemies of righteous- 
ness, — the secular forces, — the advocates of 
Christless government. As soon as we announce 
that the Constitution of the United States is Law 
of the Second Order, and that it should be made 
to recognize, obey and rest upon its master — Law 
of the First Order — the entire confederacy of 
Atheism do threaten an eruption in the prostitu- 
tion of American politics, farther reaching and 
more destructive than that of Mt. Pelee. Our 
position, however, is incontrovertibly secure. The 
Constitution of the State and Nation is Law of 
the Second Order: because the authors thereof 

45 



4t> CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

were second rate beings. They were neither self- 
existent nor independent. They were not all- 
wise. They begat a defective instrument as a 
basis of government for the American people. 
We know that they were not all-wise, for the 
American people have already been able to add 
fifteen amendments, and all within the time limit 
of less than One Hundred years. Each amend- 
ment, moreover, is a concession on the part of the 
American people that the framers of the Con- 
stitution were second rate beings. It is a con- 
cession that they were not all- wise, and that 
they procured for us a constitution not adapted 
to all times and conditions. There is ab- 
solutely but one method by which creatures 
of a second order can bring the product of 
their own minds up to the standard of Law of 
the First Order ; and that is by making the hu- 
man instrument to securely rest upon and recog- 
nize the Divine. It is in harmony with the eter- 
nal rectitude of affairs that the product of the 
mind of the finite should continually recognize, 
rest upon and obey the product of the mind of 
the Infinite. Hence, Law of the Second Order 
should recognize, rest upon and obey its master 
in all things, Law of the First Order. Let the 
person who will antagonize this position first 



AND THE SABBATH. 47 

prove himself to be all-wise, self-existent and in- 
dependent. This is our argument for the pro- 
posed Christian Amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States. The voicing of the amend- 
ment might very appropriately appear in the Pre- 
amble. It would then read as follows : We, the 
people of these United States, recognizing Al- 
mighty God as the source of all power in 
heaven and on earth; the Lord Jesus Christ as 
King of Kings, and Lord of Lords — The Provi- 
dential Governor of the Universe; and His Law 
as of final and supreme authority in civil affairs ; 
in order to form a more perfect union, establish 
justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the 
general welfare, provide for the common defense, 
and insure the blessings of liberty to ourselves 
and our posterity, do ordain and establish this 
Constitution for the United States of America. 
If by the miraculous pouring out of the Holy 
Spirit we might be able to prevail upon the 
Christian citizenship of our great country, to im- 
mediately adopt this amendment and unitedly 
stand for its enforcement, it would result in the 
binding of Satan, and immediately cause to 
burst upon our beatific vision the first gush of 
the indescribable glory of the dawn of the Mil- 
lennial Day. O will the Christian people thus 



4 8 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

strive to bring to pass the answer to the prayer, 

THY KINGDOM COME. 

Surely the Christian citizenship of this great 
country will soon begin to pray and labor in the 
most effective manner for the advent of the time 
when the will of our Lord "shall be done on earth 
as it is in heaven." To this end it is the duty 
of all such to pray and labor with untiring zeal 
and energy to bring to pass the Christian Amend- 
ment. "We should neither give sleep to our eyes, 
nor rest to our eyelids" until the logical, natural 
relationship existing between Law of the First 
and Second Order be forever recognized and es- 
tablished. When that blessed day comes, we 
shall have succeeded in emancipating our official 
men from a bondage worse than sacrilege. We 
will not then be compelled to gaze upon the inde- 
fensible conduct of our official servants, in as- 
suming positions of public trust where, in the ad- 
ministration of the inaugural oath, calling upon 
Almighty God for assistance, they are sworn to 
administer abominable measures which God 
hates. Surely, Christian men will hail with de- 
light the day of their emancipation. When such 
reformation shall have been achieved the bless- 
ings of an higher civilization will continually de- 



AND THE SABBATH. 49 

scend upon the heads of our official men, and 
upon the heads of all the people, like the dew upon 
Mount Hermon in the days of Solomon. In that 
blessed day all those Statutory enactments which 
are found to be in harmony with the Law of 
Christ, and they alone, will be regarded as con- 
stitutional. 



CHAPTER VI. 

LAW OF THE THIRD ORDER. 

In the further construction of this Scriptural 
Diagram we will now bound two sections of like 
appearance and dimension. We place them on a 
parity, designating the one as Statutory Law and 
the other as Common Law ; and both as Law of 
the Third Order. We will also require that 
both in turn should rest upon, recognize and 
obey their master — Law of the Second Order — 
as Law of the Second Order was made to rest 
upon, recognize and obey its master — Law of 
the First Order. This Diagram is not only 
Scriptural in the ethics of its teaching, but it is 
the logical, natural arrangement of the three 
general orders or kinds of law, as it exists in 
God's plan, and as it will be received by all na- 
tions, kindreds, peoples and tongues: when "the 
Lord Jesus shall take unto Him His great power 
and reign." This Diagram is the plainly visible 
compass of the unerring mind of the invisible 
God, touching the matters of government and 
the jurisprudence of law, which no human power 
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may continue to ignore or displace. It is the ul- 
timatum of God the Father, to the kingdoms of 
this world and to the powers of darkness, de- 
manding universal submission to the Mediatorial 
Authority and Dominion of Christ. We have 
already stated that Statutory Law is Law of the 
Third Order. In its simpler analysis this is 
true, because it is logically and naturally third in 
order and third in place. Statutory Law is en- 
acted by the Legislature of a State, or by the 
Congress of the United States, touching the do- 
mestic, the educational, the industrial, the moral 
and social welfare of all the people, and from the 
day of its enactment, in a Christian country, it 
should be in exact harmony with Law of the 
Second Order, as Law of the Second Order 
should be in exact harmony with Law of the 
First Order. It is relevant here to call to mind 
again Blackstone's definition of Law, viz. : "Law 
is that which is enacted by the supreme power of 
the State commending that which is right and 
prohibiting that which is wrong." We will note 
again Blackstone's other definition also, viz. : 
"That is not law, which conflicts with the Law of 
God." And we will add: That is not law, which 
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AND THE SABBATH. 53 

morally wrong is not law at all; it is a corrupt 
and corrupting measure. It is the highest type of 
Christian patriotism therefore, to refuse to ac- 
cept an office of trust, either in person or by rep- 
resentative, where the person, calling upon Al- 
mighty God for assistance, is sworn to adminis- 
ter an immoral measure that is in direct conflict 
with the Law of Christ. 

Common Law is also Law of the Third Order, 
being on a parity with Statutory Law. Com- 
mon Law comprises the mind of the Supreme 
Court, touching all those Statutory Enactments 
which are found to be in harmony with Law of 
the Second Order. If the Supreme Court ren- 
ders a decision in regard to a Statutory Enact- 
ment, and the decision is in plain conflict with 
Law of the First and Second Order ; the decision 
is Common Law in name only and should be re- 
viewed at the earliest possible moment, and like 
a corrupt Statute, it should be set aside as un- 
constitutional. Common Law in Fact, comprises 
all Statutory Enactments, which when tested by 
the Court of Last Appeals are found to be in har- 
mony with the spirit and letter of Law of the 
First and Second Order. Thus the Supreme 
Court rightly deals with Statutory Law and 
rightly reverses its own mistakes in perfect accord 



54 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

with the true relationship existing between Law 
of the First and Second Order. The function 
of the office of the Supreme Court therefore is, 
when properly approached and when the right re- 
lationship is once established between the three 
general classes of law, to set aside as unconstitu- 
tional all vicious Statutory Enactments and all 
past decisions of courts which are found to be 
in conflict with 

THE LAW OF CHRIST. 

With the foregoing relationship of the differ- 
ent orders or kinds of law once established the 
Supreme Court should make no mistakes. With 
such an arrangement we should be able to set 
aside as unconstitutional all the ills that afflict 
society; and at the same time we should be able 
to maintain as constitutional from generation to 
generation all those Statutory enactments which, 
when executed, administered and enforced, tend 
to promote the domestic, the educational, the in- 
dustrial, the moral and social interests and wel- 
fare of all the people. When the logical natural 
relationship existing between the three general 
orders or kinds of law, shall once have been es- 
tablished through the active endeavor of Chris- 
tian citizenship, the unique position and the far- 



AND THE SABBATH. 55 

reaching power of the Supreme Court to main- 
tain the right and set aside the ills that afflict so- 
ciety, will be readily discovered. Our readers, 
however, may come into immediate possession of 
this valuable information in the pursuance of the 
study of the Diagram, as we proceed with its con- 
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We call the attention of our readers to the 
newly added section in the form of the letter T, 
in which is written JUDICIARY DECISIONS. 
This is the logical natural position that the Su- 
preme Court occupies in reference to the two 
kinds of law designated as Law of the Third 
Order — the two kinds of law which we place on 
a parity; — the two kinds of law with which the 
Supreme Court has to do. As Statutory and Com- 
mon Law, in a Christian government do rest upon 
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Order, so the Supreme Court should, as it appears 
to do in the Diagram, rest all Judiciary Decisions 
upon the same double basis. On this plan the Su- 
preme Court, as it were, would plant the feet of 
its standing upon this double basis ; and, with its 
strong right arm outstretched, as you see it in the 
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tutional and hold forever secure upon this double 
foundation, all Statutory enactments which are in 
pursuance with the same. On this same plan the 
same Supreme Judiciary, with its strong left arm 
outstretched, should be able to maintain and hold 
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58 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

Court should also be able to fling to the right 
and to the left as unconstitutional, all Statutory 
Enactments and all principles at Common Law, 
which are found to be in conflict with this 
double basis. On this glorious plan, and on this 
plan alone, the Supreme Judiciary may be- 
come the firmest bulwark of our cherished lib- 
erties and our free institutions. On this plan, the 
Supreme Court should be able to cast into the 
furnace of God's consuming ire all Statutory en- 
actments, and all past decisions of courts, that 
have resulted in the sacrifice of the paramount 
interests of the people. On this plan, we will 
eventually attain not only to the physical, moral 
and spiritual emancipation of our species from the 
thraldom of the dominion of incorporated insati- 
able greed; but we will lift the whole populace 
of the country and of the world into full posses- 
sion of the higher civilization which may very 
properly be designated, 

THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH. 

Then, "The light of the moon shall be as the 
light of the sun : and the light of the sun shall 
be as the light of seven days, and there shall be 
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AND THE SABBATH. 59 

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On this plan and on this plan alone, God is over 
All. On this plan and on this plan alone, Christ 
is King Over the Nation ; and the Bible is Law 
for the Nation. On this plan and on this plan 
alone, the Lord Jesus Christ will dispense the 
providences that will eventually subjugate the 
world of nations unto Himself. 



CHAPTER VII. 

SCRIPTURAL ENTRENCHMENT POINTING TO THE 
NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH. 

SCRIPTURAL ENTRENCHMENT. 

"I will put enmity between thee and the wo- 
man, and between thy seed and her seed ; it shall 
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." 

"And the angel of the Lord called unto Abra- 
ham a second time out of heaven, and said, By 
myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou 
hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy 
son, thine only son; that in blessing I will bless 
thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed 
as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which 
is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess 
the gate of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all 
the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou 
hast obeyed my voice." 

"Ask of me and I will give thee the nations for 
thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the 
earth for thy possession." 

"All the ends of the earth shall remember and 
turn unto the Lord; And all the kindreds of the 
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AND THE SABBATH. 63 

nations shall worship before thee. For the king- 
dom is the Lord's, and He is the ruler over the 
nations." 

"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, 
and from the river unto the ends of the earth. 
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow be- 
fore him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring 
presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall 
offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before 
Him ; all nations shall serve Him." 

"I saw in the night vision, and, behold, there 
came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a 
son of man, and he came even to the ancient of 
days, and they brought him near before him. And 
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a 
kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and lan- 
guages should serve him : his dominion is an ever- 
lasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and 
his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." 

"For neither doth the Father judge any man, 
but He hath given all judgment unto the Son 
that all may honour the Son, even as they honour 
the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, hon- 
oureth not the Father which sent Him." 

"And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, 
saying, All authority hath been given unto me in 



64 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

heaven and on earth. Go ye, therefore, and make 
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into 
the name of the Father, and of the Son and of 
the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all 
things whatsoever I commanded you, and lo, I am 
with you always, even unto the end of the world." 

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 
Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of 
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him ; 
having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that 
ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what 
the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the 
saints, and what the exceeding greatness of his 
power to us-ward who believe, according to that 
working of the strength of his might which he 
wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the 
dead, and made him sit at his right hand in heav- 
enly places, far above all rule and authority, and 
power and dominion, and every name that is 
named, not only in this world, but also in that 
which is to come; and he put all things in sub- 
jection under his feet and gave him to be head 
over all things to the church, which is his body, 
the fullness of him that filleth all in all." 

"Have this mind in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, 
counted it not a prize to be on an equality with 



AND THE SABBATH. 65 

God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a 
servant, being made in the likeness of men, and 
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, 
the death of the cross. Wherefore also God 
highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name 
which is above every name, that in the name of 
Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven 
and things on earth and things under the earth, 
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus 
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." 

"This is the antichrist, even he that denieth 
the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the 
Son, the same hath not the Father; he that con- 
fessed the Son hath the Father also/' 

"He that hath the Son hath the life; he that 
hath not the Son of God hath not the life." 

"Everyone therefore who shall confess me be- 
fore men, him will I also confess before my 
Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall 
deny me before men, him will I also deny before 
my Father which is in heaven." 

"Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in 
the teaching of Christ, hath not God; he that 
abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the 
Father and the Son." 

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66 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

lowed great voices in heaven, and they said, The 
kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of 
our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign 
forever and ever." 

"And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp 
sword, that with it he should smite the nations; 
and shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he 
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the 
wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his 
garment, and on his thigh a name written, King 
of Kings and Lord of Lords." 

"And I heard as it were the voice of a great 
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and 
as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelu- 
jah, for the Lord our God, the Almighty reign- 
eth." 

"And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon 
them, and judgment was given unto them ; and I 
saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for 
the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, 
and such as worshiped not the beast, neither his 
image, and received not the mark upon their fore- 
head and upon their hand; and they li\ed and 
reigned with Christ a thousand years. The rest 
of the dead lived not until the thousand years 
should be finished. This is the first resurrection. 
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first 



AND THE SABBATH. 67 

resurrection ; over these the second death hath no 
power; but they shall be priests of God and of 
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand 
years/' 

THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH. 

When the glory of Christ's kingdom shall ap- 
pear, the people will say : 

The aggregate of all right teaching in the past 
has brought us to see the new heavens and the 
new earth. Behold ! The people are now all 
righteous, for the spirit of the Father and the Son 
has been poured out upon all flesh. There is no 
more need that "one man should say unto his 
brother, know the Lord ;" for "The knowledge of 
the Lord now covers the earth as the waters cover 
the sea" — broad and deep. The desert now lit- 
erally blossoms as the rose, for there is no more 
curse. The Lord has rebuked the devourer for 
the sake of His covenant people. There is no 
more the caterpillar, the canker worm, the palmer 
worm, mildew, rust. The Lord now pours out 
the early rain and the latter rain, and each in its 
season, just when it is needed. He pours out the 
early rain and the latter rain gently, with no room 
anywhere for a cyclone or a hail-storm. He 
causes the early rain to reach to the latter rain, 



68 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

with no room between for drought. The great 
motor force now impelling the conduct of men 
is love to God and love to man, and the will 
of the Lord now appears to be done on earth as 
it is in heaven. Men have now come to regard 
the Sabbath both as a day of rest and a day of 
worship. They also exhibit a profound rever- 
ence for the sanctuary. Our churches are now 
crowded to the doors, and there is no more the 
voice of the vulgar and profane in all our borders. 
The materialistic age has passed away, and the 
fatherhood of God and the brother of man is uni- 
versally owned and recognized. We have arrived 
at the gospel solution of the once perplexing 
question of Capital and Labor, and flesh and 
blood and the souls of men are no longer sacri- 
ficed upon the lustful altar of insatiable greed. 
The liquor traffic is dead, and together with its 
associate evils, has passed away like morning 
clouds after a night's rain. The great Armaged- 
don — the last great battle has been fought, and 
the corrupt powers of the old earth have been 
dashed to pieces like potter's vessels. The fowls 
of heaven have had their great supper, and after 
babbling conference have scattered again to the 
four winds of heaven. The continents have been 
divorced by canals, and the oceans have been 



AND THE SABBATH. 69 

wedded by the kissing of their waters, and do 
now bear upon their united bosorn the commerce 
of all nations, in universal reciprocity and free 
trade, in accordance with the ethics of the Deca- 
logue, the Sermon on the Mount and the Gold- 
en Rule. Science is so perfected and our world 
is so effectually electrolighted that it may 
verily be said, there is no night there. Aerial 
navigation is now in sharp competition with 
transportation by land and sea, and our airships 
may now be seen sporting with the American 
Eagle in God's pure ether. With all this in view 
it may be said there is no more sea to obstruct 
the world's commerce. All important acts of 
legislation are now in accord with the Law of 
Christ, and there is no longer the conspiring of 
our law-makers with capital for a general hold- 
up of the masses. Instead of bribe-giving capi- 
talists, and bribe-taking politicians, we have ar- 
rived at Municipal, State and National ownership 
of all natural monopolies, by the right of eminent 
domain and in the interests of all the people. As 
one of our noble White Ribbon women has said, — 
Pennsylvania has become the "Quay-Stone State." 
But, blessed be God, this is no longer true. It is 
the Key-stone State again, — purified and re- 
deemed. We are now well able to effectively 



70 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

apply the universal doctrine of arbitration in the 
settlement of all difficulties and disputes ; and are 
now ready to encore the angels who sang at the 
first advent of Christ, to sing the same glorious 
song as prophesy fulfilled : "Glory to God in the 
highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." 
For there is a world of nations all at peace with 
one another. Hallelujah, for the Lord our God, 
the Almighty reigneth. 



PART SECOND. CHAPTER I. 

THE SABBATH A SIGN. 

Exodus Thirty-first Chapter, Thirteenth Verse. 
"Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel, say- 
ing, Verily ye shall keep my Sabbaths : for it is 
a sign between me and you throughout your gen- 
erations, that ye may know that I am the Lord 
which sanctify you." The many great occur- 
rences in men's lives appear to have been largely 
influenced and effected by signs. We have come 
to regard this thought, as a marked feature in in- 
dividual history, from the creation of the world, 
even unto this day. It matters not how religious, 
or how superstitious men may be ; they are all the 
time seeking to be directed and favorably in- 
fluenced by the supernatural. The nearer men are 
to God and Christ, the more definite are their 
views as to what constitutes the supernatural. 
The further men depart from God and Christ, the 
more they are inclined to superstition. The Apos- 
tle Paul regarded the stoics in Athens, as being 
altogether too superstitious * * * Some 
men observe the signs in the sun ; and others ob- 

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72 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

serve the signs in the heavens. Belief in a sign 
from God is a virtue, whilst being guided by 
superstition is the sin of ignorance. And ignorance 
in such case, certainly is not bliss. Bliss, indeed, 
lies in a real sign from God. The diurnal revo- 
lution of our earth upon its axis, is a definite sign 
to all who know the living and true God ; that we 
shall continue to have the succession of day and 
night ; which insures to men a time for labor and 
a time for repose. The annual revolution of our 
world around the sun is a definite sign from God 
that we do not live in a world of chance, and, that 
while sun and moon endure, we shall continue to 
have summer and winter, cold and heat, seed time 
and harvest. God's six period method of bring- 
ing order out of chaos, followed by the single 
period of the reposing of his creative energy, was 
given as a perpetual sign of the weekly recurrence 
of the holy Sabbath. In exact harmony with the 
wisdom of God as indicated in this plan, the law 
of the Sabbath appears to have been written in 
the very fibre of man's being. The infinite wis- 
dom of the great Creator in this matter, is plainly 
evidenced. After this process, all the way down 
through the ages. God has been schooling the 
physical man into due regard for the 
moral nature. God made it necessary that man 



AND THE SABBATH. 73 

should require a periodical day of rest in addition 
to his nightly repose. The plan was necessary, 
not only that he might continue to remember that 
there is a God, but that he might have both time 
and sufficient energy to induce him to worship the 
great Creator * * * When the whole Avorld 
of mankind (excepting one family), waxed wicked 
and forsook the Lord, the Almighty took that one 
family in the hollow of His hand, as it were, and 
lifted it, morality, religion, the family altar, the 
Sabbath and all, from the antediluvian side of 
the flood to the post-diluvian side. Those who 
had forgotten the Lord and the Sabbath ; had been 
forgotten by the Lord of the Sabbath, who left 
them effectually silenced on the antediluvian side 
of the flood. Are we not justifiable in conclud- 
ing that the corrupt conditions which were so ef- 
fectually silenced on the antediluvian side of the 
flood should never have been introduced again on 
the post-diluvian side of the flood? When such 
corruption is discovered, all the faithful sons of 
Noah should bend every energy to have it ex- 
punged. When Noah had safely landed on our 
side of the flood, — the Lord appeared to say unto 
him : Here you are Noah, safe and sound. Now 
Noah, you can preach the preaching of right- 
eousness, for there is no opposition. When the 



74 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

great patriarch had stepped upon the dry land, his 
first thought was gratitude, and his first act was 
worship, and the Sabbath had safely landed on 
our side of the flood. Noah was not superstitious, 
but God had determined to reassure his confidence. 
"And God spake unto Noah and to his sons with 
him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my coven- 
ant with you, and with your seed after you ; and 
with every living creature that is with you, the 
fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with 
you ; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast 
of the earth. And I will establish my covenant 
with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut ofT any 
more by the waters of the flood; neither shall 
there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 
And God said, this is the token of the covenant 
which I make between me and you and every liv- 
ing creature that is with you, for perpetual gen- 
erations ; I do set my bow in the cloud, and it 
shall be for a token of a covenant between me and 
the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I 
bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall 
be seen in the cloud, and I will remember every 
living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall 
no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And 
the bow shall be in the cloud ; and I will look upon 
it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant 



AND THE SABBATH. 75 

between me and every living creature of all flesh 
that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah : 
This is the token of the covenant which I have es- 
tablished between me and all flesh that is upon 
the earth." Blessed assurance. Blessed token. 
Blessed sign. This is the sign which God Him- 
self had painted in all the colors of the rainbow 
in its first appearance. Truly, it was a picture of 
celestial art and beauty in the indescribable blend- 
ing of the hues in ineffable effect. This covenant 
between God and Noah, is the most painstaking 
paragraph in the Bible; for the establishment of 
the faith of a saint of God, in the steadfastness 
of the covenants that exist between God and His 
people. With this covenant in view, all skepti- 
cism should have been forever swept from the 
earth by the flood. With this covenant in view, 
the spiritual life, the family altar, the holy Sab- 
bath, and the church of the living God, should 
have been rendered forever stable and secure. 
Thus the world had been washed from its impur- 
ity, and the holy Sabbath and every thing sacred 
had been safely lodged on our side the flood, 
and rendered secure so far as the saints of God 
are concerned, by the sign of the covenant in the 
heavens. Thus the holy Sabbath became the in- 
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tion it was passed on until it reached Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob, and on through the Egyptian 
bondage, and through the Red Sea to the Mount 
of God, where the Law of the Sabbath, together 
with the other commandments was indelibly writ- 
ten by the hand of God upon the select granite of 
Horeb. This same Law of the Sabbath was re- 
peated and rehearsed in the audience of the peo- 
ple, by the great Lawgiver through His prophet 
Moses, until the congregation of Israel had 
arrived at the banks of the Jordan. To all God's 
people the following will ever be regarded as a 
most interesting and profitable statement of the 
Sabbath question : "Speak thou also unto the 
children of Israel, saying, verily ye shall keep my 
Sabbaths ; for it is a sign between me and you 
throughout your generations ; that ye may know 
that I am the Lord which sanctify you." This is 
plainly written, as a sign of a covenant relation- 
ship between God and His people ; for it must be 
evident to every one, that God will sanctify His 
own people only. When He thus sanctifieth a 
peculiar people unto Himself, he can truly say 
unto them, ye are my sons and daughters, and 
they can say in turn, Abba Father. And, accord- 
ing to this portion of Scripture, this is the re- 
lationship that exists between all true lovers of the 



AND THE SABBATH. 77 

Sabbath and God the Father. The Sabbath cher- 
ished, loved and revered in the heart of a people, 
should ever be received as a sign of the abiding 
love of Christ. It is the token of an everlasting 
covenant. "I am the Lord which sanctify you." 

There are but two kinds of sanctification, viz: 
the sanctification of consecration for service ; and 
sanctification for heaven. Certainly all those who 
truly love the Lord Jesus Christ and the Sab- 
bath will attain to sanctification in both senses. 
The person who can truly say unto the Lord: 
Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou knowest that 
I love the blessed, holy Sabbath with all its sacred 
rights and privileges ; the Lord can say in quick 
response, "I have loved thee with an everlasting 
love," and thenceforth I will impart to thee the 
sanctification of consecration for faithful service. 
"I will never leave thee; I will never forsake 
thee ;" and when the days of thine earthly pilgrim- 
age are at an end, I will see to it that thou shalt 
never part this life until thy soul is fully sancti- 
fied for heaven. Joy to the world of believers ! 
The Sabbath is a sign of sanctification. 

All those, who from the supreme motive of love 
to God and Christ, will remember the Sabbath 
day to keep it holy in the true spirit of the insti- 
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78 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

godly life in this present evil world, and that "they 
will bring up their children in the nurture, fear 
and admonition of the Lord." "They will be living 
epistles, known and read of all men." Moreover, 
when they depart this life, they will leave the 
world better than they found it. 

Again, all those who from proper motives, re- 
member the Sabbath day to keep it holy, it is a 
definite sign that they will be good citizens. They 
will not give our policemen trouble. They will 
be in church on Sabbath, and we will not look to 
see them before our police courts on Monday. It 
would be an unusual sight, indeed, to see our po- 
lice walking up and down the aisles of our 
churches, proclaiming in the audience of the de- 
vout worshipers ; we are here, ye saints of the 
most high God. We are determined that ye shall 
not disturb the peace and good order of society. 
We will see to it that ye continue to be civil. Nay 
brethren. The grace of God in the heart of a 
Christian people, together with profound respect 
for the holy Sabbath — is the police force for the 
church of Christ. It is the divine process of mak- 
ing men civil. There is another field of service 
and of duty into which our police must enter. 
The police force is constantly on the slimy, ser- 
pentine trail of the Sabbath breakers. They are 



AND THE SABBATH. 79 

seeking out the infernal dens of the babbling 
drunkards, the gamblers, the whore-mongers and 
such-like from day to day. What shall we say 
as to our drunken, gambling, whore-monger poli- 
ticians and so-called law-makers, who are ever on 
the alert to take bribes, and who are constantly 
exercising themselves in the field of political can- 
vass in the lobbies, to break down and repeal 
our Sabbath laws ? They are the avowed enemies 
of Christian civilization and of our free institu- 
tions ; and are more to be dreaded than famine, 
and sword and pestilence — for God is often under 
the necessity of employing one, or all of these, 
for the overthrow of such usurpers. Such per- 
sonalities are the devil's advance agents in the 
establishment of the schools of anarchy where the 
Christless hoards are ripened and graduated to 
break every law of God and man, which corrup- 
tion, when taken in the aggregate, unless a check 
is put upon it by wholesome endeavor, will event- 
ually result in a reign of terror. We call upon the 
Christian citizenship of this great country, ere it 
be too late, to speedily awake from a state of 
lethargy and seeming indifference, and to enter 
at once upon a peaceful moral crusade, such as 
has never yet swept the American continent, 
which will result in social and political house- 



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cleaning from cellar to garret. Thus we may be 
able to maintain our Sabbath laws in spite of all 
insane opposition ; for the Sabbath is a sign of 
everything else that is desirable in our civilization. 
If the Sabbath be taken from us as a protected 
institution, then woe be to the Christian type of 
the family ; to the Christian church, and to every 
Christian usage and custom in the State and Na- 
tion. The united church of the living God must 
stand in one unbroken phalanx in defense of the 
Diamond of Days, in order that it may be possible 
to school the succeeding generations in civil man- 
ners and morals. When we are thus able to 
educate all men, then all men will be civil, and we 
will have but little use for policemen, city or state 
prisons. The Sabbath is a sign of all that is good 
in the Family, the Church and the State ; and all 
who are good, will count it a privilege to spend 
and be spent in its defense. 

By prayer and by faith, in the constant exercise 
of untiring zeal and energy, in a life of self-sacri- 
fice on the part of all those who truly love the 
Lord Jesus Christ : we should be able to pass down 
to our children, and our children's children unto 
the latest generation — the better inheritance — the 
Christian Sabbath. This can only be effected by 
the aggregate of all right teaching. For, it is the 



AND THE SABBATH. 81 

aggregate of all right teaching in the past, that has 
given to us all that is desirable in the present : and 
it will require the aggregate of all right teaching 
in the future, to usher in the kingdom of our Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Sabbath is a sign 
of all that is good in our present civilization ; and 
it is a type of all that is desirable in the future life, 
and we are to speak unto all nations to this effect. 
"Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel, say- 
ing, Verily ye shall keep my Sabbaths : for it is a 
sign between me and you throughout your genera- 
tions, that ye may know that I am the Lord which 
sanctify you." 



PART SECOND— CHAPTER II 

ADVANTAGES OF A WELL-SPENT SABBATH. 

Isaiah fifty-eighth chapter, thirteenth and four- 
teenth verses. 

When, in the use of Scripture language, we are 
asked to define a well-spent Sabbath, we usually 
refer our readers to the thirteenth and fourteenth 
verses of the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah: "If 
thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from 
doing thy pleasure upon my holy day, and call the 
Sabbath a delight, and the holy of the Lord hon- 
ourable, and shalt honour it, not doing thine own 
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speak- 
ing thine own words : then shalt thou delight thy- 
self in the Lord, and I will make thee to ride upon 
the high places of the earth ; and I will feed thee 
with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the 
mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." These verses 
furnish not only a Scriptural definition of a well- 
spent Sabbath : but, they plainly indicate also the 
many advantages that will accrue to a people from 
the proper observance of the same. When we are 
asked for a concept of the opinion of the Church 
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AND THE SABBATH. 83 

of Christ, as to what constitutes a well-spent Sab- 
bath : we usually direct the attention of our read- 
ers to the answer to the question as found in the 
Westminster Shorter Catechism: "How is the 
Sabbath to be sanctified?" Answer: "The Sab- 
bath is to be sanctified by an holy resting all that 
day, even from such worldly employments and re- 
creations, as are lawful on other days: and in 
spending the whole time in the public and private 
exercises of God's worship; except so much as is 
to be taken up in the works of necessity and 
mercy." When we are asked for a definition of a 
well-spent Sabbath in our own language, to be 
made so plain that even a child may be able to 
comprehend: we usually enlarge upon the above 
definitions as follows : When we open our eyes 
upon the First day of the week, before we have 
time to lift our heads from the pillows ; we should 
thank God, that we have been permitted to be- 
hold another day of the Son of Man upon earth. 
A little later, when we have arisen from our beds, 
and are clothed and in our right minds, like little 
children, we should bow in secret prayer, and, 
our Father who seeth in secret will reward us 
openly. When we sit down to our bountiful 
tables, on the Sabbaths and on the week-days : we 
should never fail to ask God's blessing upon the 



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provision set before us : and after we have eaten 
to the full we should devoutly give thanks to the 
Giver of all good, for supplying our needs from 
day to day. When the proper hour has arrived, 
we should joyfully turn our foot to the sanctuary, 
where, with enrapture of soul, we will join in the 
celebration of God's praise, and prayerfully listen 
to the reading and preaching of the Word. After 
service we should turn to our homes to engage in 
the reading of religious journals, and good books, 
but more especially the Holy Bible ; — with no time 
anywhere for the sandwiching in of a Sunday 
newspaper. We also recommend that much time 
be spent in holy meditation, with ample time also 
for all real works of necessity and mercy. There 
must be abundant time, moreover, for catechumen 
exercises, that we may be able thereby to bring up 
our children "in the nurture, fear and admonition 
of the Lord." Let this wholesome fact also be 
kept in constant memory: It should require as 
much thunder, and lightning, and hail and rain 
to keep us from Church on Sabbath, as it does to 
keep us from our places of business on Monday. 
When the Sabbath is drawing to a close, we should 
re-assemble around the family altar and engage 
once more in the blessed exercises in family wor- 
ship. When we have returned to our bed-cham- 



AND THE SABBATH. 85 

bers, we should reverently bow once more in se- 
cret prayer : and, when once again our heads press 
the downy pillows, just before dropping into un- 
consciousness in slumber, we should softly whisper 
in the ear of our Saviour the prayer of gratitude 
and thanksgiving that we have been permitted to 
make another Sabbath day's journey toward the 
Celestial City. We believe this outline to be in 
accord with the mind of Christ as to what consti- 
tutes — 

A WELL-SPENT SABBATH. 

There is a suitable Golden Text, for every Sab- 
bath-school lesson and for every paragraph of 
Scripture. And, almost every verse of Scripture 
may be said to contain a key-word, which if we 
are wise enough to be able to select, will be of 
great advantage in unlocking and unfolding the 
mind of Christ concerning any and every great 
question. In the verses now under consideration, 
we desire to discover the mind of Christ, as to 
what constitutes a well-spent Sabbath. 

The great prophet Isaiah, as he was moved by 
the Holy Ghost, was instructed to cry aloud and 
spare not against four dominant National sins, 
vis. : Idolatry, oppression, drunkenness and Sab- 
bath-breaking. The Lord saw the waywardness 



86 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

of the Congregation of Israel in transgressing 
against the law of the Sabbath. The Lord ex- 
pressed His mind as is recorded in the thirteenth 
and fourteenth verses of the fifty-eighth chapter 
of Isaiah. He saw that the great body of the peo- 
ple had turned aside after iniquity, and He marked 
the way of the transgressors. In the days of 
Isaiah, and in the days of the Lord Jesus, about 
the only way men could arrive in perdition was to 
walk there. The following may be regarded as 
a literal rendering of the mind of Christ touching 
this question: "Wide is the gate, and broad is 
the way that leadeth to destruction, and many 
there be that walk therein." He saw that the mul- 
titudes were out after their own pleasure on the 
Sabbath, and that their feet were turned in the di- 
rection of evil. Observing the wayward feet of 
the transgressors, He said unto the great prophet : 
"Cry aloud and spare not." Say unto the people : 
"Turn ye ; turn ye ! Why will ye die, O house of 
Israel? * * * F-o-o-t is the Key-word in 
the turnings of the congregation of Israel, as re- 
lates to all matters of transgression. If thou wilt 
turn away thy f-o-o-t from doing thy pleasure on 
my holy day, etc. And, why does God notice the 
way transgressors choose to turn their foot upon 
the Sabbaths? Why does the shipmaster turn 



AND THE SABBATH. 87 

the little helm on the ship ? When the great ship 
at sea is tempest-tossed, it is a very important 
matter, how the shipmaster adjust the helm. He 
may so adjust the helm that the ship with her 
precious cargo may be dashed to pieces upon the 
rock-bound coast; or, he may so adjust the helm 
that she will turn about at his pleasure, and pass 
out upon the broad bosom of the great deep, 
where she will outride the storm in safety ; and at 
last arrive in the desired haven with her precious 
cargo of human freight. In like manner the foot 
is the helm to the human body. Whithersoever 
the foot turneth, thither the whole body will turn, 
and convey the soul that is within to the same des- 
tination. The people were walking in the broad 
road to perdition in the days of the great prophet 
Isaiah, and the Lord instructed him to invite them 
to turn away their foot from doing their own 
pleasure on the holy Sabbaths ; and, instead there- 
of, to turn their foot to the sanctuary — to the place 
of prayer, and finally into the golden streets of the 
New Jerusalem. In our day there are many 
ways of turning the foot in the direction of sin 
and death, besides walking therein. Walking, in- 
deed, in the ways of evil on the Sabbath, was the 
antiquated, old-time method of slowly passing in 
the direction of eternal ruin; and yet, the condi- 



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tions became so alarming, that Isaiah was in- 
structed to cry aloud and spare not. And, when 
we behold in our day upon the Sabbaths, the mul- 
titudes of people in swifter locomotion, in the use 
of modern means of rapid transit, in the turning 
of their foot in the mad rush in the direction of 
eternal destruction ; how much more intensely 
vehement should be the cry of all God's embas- 
sadors : Turn ye ; Turn ye ; Why will ye die, O 
house of America ! When the bicycle craze was 
at its climax ; it is estimated that during the twen- 
ty-four hours on the pleasant summer Sabbaths, 
in the Greater New York ; as many as two hun- 
dred and fifty thousand persons were estimated to 
turn their foot on the treadle after their own pleas- 
ure on the Lord's most holy day. Nearly one 
hundred and fifty thousand persons are now en- 
gaged in turning their foot after their own pleas- 
ure, in the publishing, exposing for sale, selling 
and delivering Sunday newspapers in our coun- 
try on the Sabbath. There is more of secu- 
larizing power in one square inch of the Sun- 
day newspaper, than in one square inch of any- 
thing the devil has in this world. And, since the 
Sunday newspaper is surfaced by square measure ; 
it may very appropriately be designated as, the 
devil's square measure, for the speedy landing of 



AND THE SABBATH. 89 

its victims in perdition. It is also estimated, that 
there are now directly interested in the active man- 
agement of the liquor traffic in our country, one 
million five hundred thousand persons. The per- 
sons engaged in this nefarious traffic, are not sat- 
isfied with the operating and turning of their foot 
in the business six days in the week ; but, through 
the activities of their advance agents — Bishop 
Potter, Dr. Rainsford, Dr. Parkhurst, Attorney 
General Jerome and others, they are besieging 
our legislatures to authorize them to operate the 
saloons on the Sabbath. Strong drink is rated by 
cubic-measure, and there is more of damning 
power in one cubic inch of adulterated rum, than 
in one cubic inch of anything the devil has in this 
world; and, the use of the devil's cubic measure, 
will result in the eternal damnation of more souls 
in a single year, than the above named dignitaries 
are likely to bring into saving relationship to 
Christ, if they were to continue to preach for a 
Millennium. Moreover when we consider the 
armies that are now engaged in the United States 
mail service ; and in the management of our great 
railroads in inter-state commerce, Sunday excur- 
sions, and such like; together with the four mil- 
lion five hundred thousand adult white and black 
slaves, that are now forced by the insatiable greed 



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of the combined heads of capital to perform seven 
days' labor for less than six days' pay, all of which 
by fraud and iniquity results in a general hold-up 
of the masses ; is it not high time that all mighty 
men of God should cry aloud and spare not, say- 
ing : Turn ye ; Turn ye ; Why will ye die, O 
house of America! Is it any marvel then, that 
the Lord stoops to observe the wayward turn of 
the foot of the American people on the holy Sab- 
baths? The way a man chooses to wink his eye, 
to turn his hand or foot on the Sabbath is a defi- 
nite index to his character. Indeed it often fore- 
casts that he shall eventually land in the States 
prison, or on the gallows and in perdition. Every 
turn of a man's foot on the Sabbath, also marks 
the character of his citizenship. We are at times 
mortified and forced to hang our heads for very 
shame, that many of our United States Senators 
and Representatives ; after sitting all day long in 
legislative session on the Sabbaths ; have left the 
halls of legislative council in the evening so 
beastly drunk ; that it required two assistants — 
one on either side, to escort certain of them to 
the cab, when the day's sessions were at an end. 

SETTING THE PACE. 

Colonel Roosevelt set the pace for the impetu- 



AND THE SABBATH. 91 

ous dash at San Juan Hill. It was done without 
the wisdom of careful reconnoissance. He and his 
courageous followers were saved from being cut 
to pieces by the timely support of a regiment of 
colored soldiers. Truly, the dashing pace was 
heroic, but the valiant and timely support was 
heroism. And here lies historic room for the di- 
viding of honors. 

A KIND PROVIDENCE FOLLOWED BY INGRATITUDE. 

The same spirit of impetuous dash recently 
brought the presidential party into collision with 
an electric car ; where one man was killed outright, 
and where the President was wounded and bleed- 
ing in head and limb. It appears that this inci- 
dent, where the President narrowly escaped with 
his life, was not followed by a marked degree of 
gratitude to Christ the King. A few weeks later 
President Roosevelt, on a Sabbath morning, was 
again on the dash. He stepped from the plat- 
form of a passenger train, about eight o'clock A. 
M. He was met at the station by a regiment of 
cavalry. The officers and soldiers desired to 
keep up the representation of a rough-rider Presi- 
dent. In a moment he was mounted upon one of 
the finest steeds. With hurrahs and cheers he 
was on the wing again. He was — 



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Setting the Pace for the entire regiment at 
neck-break speed. In the thunderous dash for 
about one and one-half miles the President led 
the van to the field of review. A number of che 
troopers were thrown from their horses and re- 
quired hospital treatment. At the field of re- 
view the President was entertained by muster, 
and parade and an exhibition in the pleasing new 
drill in calisthenics for about an hour and a half. 
He expressed himself as exceedingly well pleased ; 
after which he enjoyed the happy privilege of din- 
ing with the officers, and visiting with officers and 
soldiers. Thus a large portion of the holy Sab- 
bath was spent, and in the evening the President 
was privileged with attendance at church, where 
he was wont to bow his head with the devout wor- 
shipers. We are sorry at the President's disre- 
gard for the sanctity of the Sabbath. In this par- 
ticular he has given his prestige to the side of the 
lawless, the vulgar and the profane. Where is 
the spirit of a Washington, a Lincoln, a Garfield, 
touching the important question of the Sabbath 
rest? The President's sin seems to have been 
written in his chastisement. If I were a Chris- 
tian physician; I would diagnose his case as fol- 
lows : The ungrateful limb that was wounded 
in the trolley disaster, which afterwards became 



AND THE SABBATH. 93 

the unhallowed limb in the cavalry dash, was re- 
marked by Providence, as, the inflamed limb re- 
quiring surgical treatment, resulting in the can- 
celing of his western program, and the humiliating 
return to Washington, where he has had ample 
time for repentance, and where he may possibly 
have the desire of his soul quenched between the 
two fires of the eastern and western doctrine con- 
cerning trusts and tariff revision. King Emanuel 
— in the irresistible sway of his royal scepter in a 
series of providences, may yet move the President 
in some degree at least, to atone for his impetuous 
sin, by making definite recognition of the Lord 
Jesus Christ in his next Thanksgiving Proclama- 
tion. The German Turners and The Ameri- 
can Secular Union, both of which are now 
mighty national organizations, have resolved that 
they will never cease their effort, until they have 
succeeded in abrogating our Sabbath laws in every 
State in the Union. O when will the entire 
church of Christ awake in defense of her own life, 
and in defense of our every cherished institution ! 

EVIDENCES OF CONVERSION. 

Love for the Sabbath and the joyful turning of 
the foot of a people to the sanctuary, may be taken 
as evidences of conversion. When a person 



94 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

ceases to do his own carnal pleasure on the Lord's 
Day, and as a matter of his own volition, he turns 
his foot to the house of prayer : he is either a new 
creature in Christ Jesus, or, soon will be, if he 
continues to make progress in the direction of 
heaven. A person becomes a new creature in 
Christ Jesus, very soon before he comes to have a 
marked degree of love and respect for the Sab- 
bath, or, very soon thereafter. When he is able, 
from the depths of his soul, to make the three-fold 
declaration, as is found in the Scripture text: to 
me, — "The Sabbath is a delight ; and the holy of 
the Lord honourable:" we believe the Lord will 
honor him with the gift of the Holy Spirit in im- 
mediate conversion, resulting in a life of conse- 
cration. When he can truly say, the holy Sab- 
bath with all its benign influences and sacred 
privileges, is the joy of my life; it is the blessed 
holy day of the Lord; and I count the Sabbath, 
not only an honorable institution in itself, as it 
comes once every seven days, freshly coined from 
the mint of heaven; but I now count it a matter 
of the highest honor and privilege, instead of be- 
ing numbered with transgressors, to be found in 
communion and fellowship with the children of 
God, in the full enjoyment of the Sabbath, to- 
gether with all its sacred rights, institutions and 



AND THE SABBATH. 95 

privileges. Such wholesome reflection, should re- 
sult in great consolation to persons of all ages, 
who find themselves in possession of such blessed 
experience. It should result in great exaltation 
of soul also ; for, God has announced that He will 
cause all such persons : — "To ride upon the high 
places of the earth." This means, no doubt, that 
all persons in this relationship to God, and Christ, 
and the Sabbath, — shall not need to go through 
the world, as it were, limping and on crutches. 
They shall be made to ride upon the high places 
of the earth. That is, the person will be ex- 
alted in the estimation of God, angels and men. 
He will be exalted in the mind and hearts of the 
higher intelligences in all worlds. He will be so 
divinely directed in his vocation and calling; as 
to be speedily exalted in the estimation of all good 
people. He will even come to be exalted in the 
estimation of bad men and devils ; when they in- 
directly come in contact with the source from 
which he derives his power. Thus the Lord ex- 
alted Abraham, and Moses, and Elijah, and Peter, 
and Paul, and Knox, and Hale, and Gladstone 
and Frances E. Willard. The Lord of the Sab- 
bath will not only cause His people "To ride upon 
the high places of the earth;" but He will also, 
"Feed them with the heritage of Jacob." The 



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great seal of heaven is affixed. The decree has 
gone forth. "The mouth of the Lord hath spoken 
it." He will indeed — 

"feed them with THE HERITAGE OF JACOB." 

In covenant relationship, this was the heritage 
of Abraham ; which was the heritage of Isaac, 
which was the heritage of Jacob, which was the 
heritage of God's covenant people, which was a 
land flowing with milk and honey. Milk, the 
truest type of all foods ; honey the sweetest of all 
sweets. Blessed inheritance. Milk and honey, 
the truest types of all spiritual and new covenant 
blessing, procured by the atoning death of Christ 
upon the cross, and designed from the councils of 
eternity for the nurturing of the souls of His peo- 
ple unto eternal life. The land of Canaan itself, 
also being a type of the heavenly Canaan, where 
an innumerable company of the redeemed, to- 
gether with Christ in the presence of the holy 
angels, are to enjoy one unending Sabbath in the 
immediate vision and fruition of God. 



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Remember the Sab- 
bath Day to keep it 
holy. Six days shalt 
thou labor and do all 
thy work : but the 
Seventh Day is a Sab- 
bath unto the Lord 
thy God: In it thou 
shalt not do any work, 
thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, thy 
man servant, nor thy 
maid servant, nor thy 
cattle, nor thy stran- 
ger that is within thy 
gates: For in six days 
the Lord made heav- 
en and earth, the sea 
and all that in them 
is, and rested the Sev- 
enth Day; wherefore 
the Lord blessed the 
Sabbath Day and 
Hallowed it. 





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Sabbath Legislation 



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PART SECOND— CHAPTER III. 

THE MIND OF CHRIST ON THE SABBATH 

OR 

THE SABBATH FOR MAN. 

Mark second chapter ; twenty-third and twenty- 
eighth verses ; and Mark third chapter ; first and 
sixth verses. 

On a certain Sabbath Jesus and His disciples 
were on their way to church. The Jewish syna- 
gogues were the churches in those days. They 
were the nearest semblance to our modern 
churches. The custom of the Saviour was to 
enter into the synagogues on the Sabbaths and 
to teach the people. 

Jesus and His disciples were on their way to 
church without breakfast. It is written, "And 
His disciples were a hungered and began to pluck 
the ears of corn, and to eat." We have no certain 
knowledge as to the real reason for their being 
hungry. We can only assign a probable reason. 
The Saviour having entered upon His ministry, 
once called the attention of the people to the fact, 
that He had not a pillow that He could claim His 



AND THE SABBATH. 99 

own. In pathetic language he was heard to de- 
clare : "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the 
heaven have nests ; but the Son of Man hath not 
where to lay his head." "For ye know the grace 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was 
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor that ye 
through His poverty might become rich." He 
was homeless and homeless persons are often hun- 
gry. His disciples had forsaken all to follow Him 
and were in like condition with Himself. We 
will make mention of another probable reason for 
their being hungry. Perhaps they all had lodged 
the night before in the ideal home at Bethany — 
the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus — 
which may account for their taking their departure 
in the morning without breakfast. Our readers 
may feel somewhat surprised, that we should thus 
shadow the fair name of the delightful home at 
Bethany. Our line of thought is suggested by an 
incident which may have occurred at the tea-table 
the evening before. Martha — the model house- 
keeper — came unto the Saviour, in a somewhat 
petulant temper, and said unto Him, "Lord, dost 
thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve 
alone? Bid her, therefore that she help me." 
Our hearts are touched at the pathetic, yet gentle 
rebuke of the Saviour, "Martha, Martha, thou art 

Loffcl 



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anxious and troubled about many things: but one 
thing is needful : for Mary hath chosen the good 
part, which shall not be taken away from her." 
If this incident occurred just before their sitting 
down to the tea-table the evening before ; Jesus 
may have said unto His disciples on retiring that 
night : if it has cost Martha so much worldly anx- 
iety and care in waiting upon her Lord and His 
disciples at the tea-table : we will quietly take our 
departure in the morning without breakfast, not 
through resentment, but to teach her a lesson she 
will never forget; not to be so much concerned 
with carnal things in the entertainment of stran- 
gers, but like Mary, begin earnestly to inquire 
after the more vital interests of her immortal soul. 
This incident has its own moral and may have been 
the occasion of the Saviour and His disciples' hun- 
ger on the Sabbath morning referred to in the 
Scripture lesson. It fully answers our purpose, 
however, to announce that they were hungry and 
on their way to church. In the parallel reading 
in Matthew it is plainly mentioned that, "At that 
season Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the 
corn fields ; and His disciples were an hungered, 
and began to pluck ears of corn, and to eat." 
Who among all our readers, will be willing like 
the Saviour and His disciples, to manifest such a 



AND THE SABBATH. 101 

profound interest in the Holy Sabbath and the 
worship of God in the sanctuary, as to be ever 
ready to go to church — breakfast or no breakfast ? 
The Pharisees were also on their way to church. 
They had their splendid houses in which to dwell, 
and were no doubt sumptuously and well fed on 
this occasion ; unless indeed, they were fasting to 
be seen of men, which was their self-gratifying 
custom. These same Pharisees, observing the 
conduct of the disciples in breakfasting from the 
harvest-field, regarded the same as a direct viola- 
tion of — 

THE LAW OF THE SABBATH. 

They regarded the acts of the disciples in pluck- 
ing the ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands 
and the blowing away of the chaff as miniature 
acts of reaping, and threshing and winnowing 
grain on the Sabbath. They were filled with in- 
dignation, and had it not been for the authority 
of the Caesars, they would, no doubt, have at- 
tempted to have stoned them to death. In the 
consuming ire of their souls, they said unto the 
Saviour, "Btehold, why do they on the Sabbath 
day that which is not lawful ?" 



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THE REPLY OF THE SAVIOUR. 

"And He said unto them, Did ye never read 
what David did, when he had need, and was an 
hungered, he, and they that were with him ? How 
he entered into the house of God when Abiathar 
was high priest, and did eat the shrewbread, which 
is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave 
also to them that were with him?" The historic 
incident here referred to, has reference to David 
and his faithful followers on the occasion of his 
flight from the presence of the persecutor — King 
Saul. David and the common people that were 
with him were ready to perish with hunger. In 
their extraordinary case of necessity, they were 
permitted to eat of the hallowed bread, which 
was by Divine authority set apart for the priests 
only. The blessed Saviour herein imparts to 
the Pharisees a new and important lesson. He 
teaches them that, that which is unlawful to do 
in the ordinary case with men, becomes lawful 
in the extraordinary case. Had David and the 
common people that were with him, presumptu- 
ously partaken of the hallowed bread, not being 
hungry, it is altogether probable they would 
have been smitten dead upon the spot, as were 
once Nadab and Abihu for offering strange 



AND THE SABBATH. ioj 

fire. But in the extraordinary case of their ne- 
cessity, an extraordinary Saviour in the exercise 
of His sovereign love and compassion, was wil- 
ling to extend to David and his followers, as well 
as to His own disciples extraordinary leniency 
and forbearance in perfect adaptation to their 
needs. Our blessed Saviour in justifying the 
conduct of David and his faithful followers, 
thereby justified the conduct of His own disci- 
ples in taking their breakfast from the harvest- 
field on the Sabbath, when they had nowhere 
else to get it. We will continually bless and 
praise the name of the Father, that our Saviour 
justifies real works of necessity upon the Sab- 
bath day. He is in possession of undying sympa- 
thy for hungry men, and for a race weakened by 
sin. The Pharisee believed he had performed 
his whole duty to God and man, if in a cold legal 
life he observed but the outward letter of the 
law. He had no charity for human extremity 
resulting in human necessity. 

The mind of Christ is directly opposed to the 
mind of the Pharisee. He requires that we con- 
tinually observe both the spirit and letter of the 
law, in its adaptation to all real human neces- 
sities. We should continually bless and praise 
the name of God the Father, that His Son our 



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Saviour is not a Pharisee. We will now direct 
the attention of our readers to — 

ANOTHER NOTABLE OCCURRENCE. 

When they had arrived at the synagogue, 
Jesus discovered a man in the congregation who 
had a withered hand. His great heart went im- 
mediately out to the man, whom he at once in- 
vited to stand forth. The Pharisees ever on the 
alert, watched Jesus whether He would heal the 
man on the Sabbath day, not that they cared par- 
ticularly for the Sabbath, nor that they should 
have a splendid opportunity to praise God for the 
deed of mercy, for it is written : "And the Phari- 
sees went out, and straightway with the Hero- 
dians took counsel against Him, how they might 
destroy Him." They had but little, if any under- 
standing of the beatitude, "Blessed are the mer- 
ciful : for they shall obtain mercy." They would 
rather that a person should die from some mis- 
erable ailment than that some great philanthro- 
pist should perform a cure on the Sabbath day. 
There was deep-seated murder in their hearts, 
which might readily be discovered in the danger- 
flashes from their eyes. Jesus immediately de- 
tected in their countenances the evil intents and 
purposes of their hearts. That He was able to 



AND THE SABBATH. 105 

read their innermost thoughts, is clearly indi- 
cated in the parallel reading in the Gospel ac- 
cording to Matthew, "And He said unto them, 
What man shall there be of you, that shall have 
one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the Sab- 
bath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it 
out? How much then is a man of more value 
than a sheep ! Wherefore it is lawful to do good 
on the Sabbath day." In this part of the Bible 
narrative, we are made to see clearly, how Jesus 
continually exercises the profoundest sympathy 
for all afflicted persons : while at the same time, 
in the following language, He was heard to re- 
buke the envious Pharisees, "Ye blind guides, 
which strain out the gnat, and -swallow the camel." 
Jesus performed cures, not only upon the Sab- 
baths but upon the week-days as well. He heal- 
ed the impotent man, the palsied man, the 
crooked woman, the man that was born blind and 
the man with the withered hand, all on the Sab- 
bath days, and in every case, He stirred the mur- 
derous criticism of the Pharisees. When He 
performed cures on the week-days, the chronic 
rebels were heard to complain, "By Beelzebub 
the prince of the devils casteth He out devils." 
Jesus had invited the man with the withered 
hand to stand forth. He had engaged in the 



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above controversy with the Pharisees : and, look- 
ing upon them with righteous indignation ; — 
"And when He had looked round about on them 
with anger, being grieved at the hardening of 
their heart, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth 
thy hand. And he stretched it forth : and his 
hand was restored." Every artery filled with the 
crimson fresh life-liquid, and every nerve tin- 
gled with renewed sensation. In this wonderful 
New Testament narrative, we have a vivid ex- 
hibition of the hardness of the hearts of unre- 
generate men, as was continually manifest in 
the life of the Pharisees. We have also the more 
glorious exhibition of the infinite love and com- 
passion of our blessed Redeemer, both on the 
Sabbaths and on the week-days, for all persons 
suffering from hunger or disease. The study 
of the philanthropic character of our Saviour 
should result in a wonderful uplift in the sub- 
lime evolution of the social conscience, in the es- 
tablishment of the kingdom of Christ on earth. 

THE MIND OF CHRIST ON THE SABBATH. 

It is the plain teaching of our Lord and Sa- 
viour Jesus Christ in His tremendous controver- 
sies with the Pharisees that, in addition to our de- 
votions, holy meditations and the reading of good 



AND THE SABBATH. 107 

books, especially of the Holy Bible, we are alto- 
gether justifiable in the performance of real 
works of necessity and mercy on the Sabbath 
days. Works of necessity : His disciples taking 
their breakfast from the harvest-field, when they 
had nowhere else to get it. Works of mercy : 
The healing of the crooked woman, the palsied 
man, the man who was born blind and the man 
having the withered hand all on the Sabbath 
days. The mind of Christ is ever found to be 
in sharpest conflict with the mind of the Phari- 
sees. We should ever praise and magnify the 
great name of our God: that our new covenant 
Redeemer was not a Pharisee. We should re- 
joice evermore that His great heart can be touch- 
ed with sympathy for suffering humanity. "For 
we have not a high priest that cannot be touched 
with the feeling of our infirmities ; but one that 
hath been in all points tempted like as we are, 
yet without sin." We have a Saviour who justi- 
fies real works of necessity and mercy, every- 
where and all the time. 

PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS 

AS TO 

REAL WORKS OF NECESSITY AND MERCY. 

It is Sabbath morning. The hour for the pub- 



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lie worship of God has arrived. The Sabbath 
bells are summoning together the devout wor- 
shipers. You are clothed in your best robe and 
bonnet, and have just stepped outside your own 
door on your way to church. It is your supreme 
desire to unite with others in the matter of prayer 
and praise and to listen attentively to the pro- 
claiming of the Gospel message. A messenger 
approaches in breathless haste and announces that 
there is a poor family in town, the members of 
which have had nothing to eat for more than 
three days, and the helpless mother and children 
are faintly crying to heaven for bread. The 
Lord of the Sabbath will justify you in turning 
about and in re-entering your home and in secur- 
ing a basket full of provision and in journeying 
to that home and in administering provision to 
the world's poor, even though it should absent 
you from the church and deprive you of the en- 
tire hour of worship. If on another Sabbath, 
when on your way to church, a swift-running 
messenger approaches you and announces that 
there is a poor widow woman, who is taken with 
sudden illness and is suffering from excruciating 
pain * * * the doctor is out of town and 
she has no friend to do anything to relieve her : 
the Lord of the Sabbath will justify you in going 



AND THE SABBATH. 109 

and ministering to her like an angel of 
mercy, even though it should absent you all 
day from the house of worship and even from 
the celebration of the sacrament of the Lord's 
Supper. 'The Lord loves mercy rather than 
sacrifice." Such conduct is real mercy. Feed the 
hungry and minister to the sick as a matter of 
first duty and worship God afterward. When 
Jesus had performed this remarkable cure upon 
the man having the withered hand on the Sab- 
bath day, the vehement wrath of the Pharisees 
knew no bounds. While many in the congrega- 
tion, no doubt, were in a state of ecstacy, and 
were ready to leap to their feet and shout, Amen ! 
Alleluiah ! Glory to God in the highest ! The 
Pharisees were so intensely indignant, they were 
not able to wait for the orderly dismissal of the 
congregation in the pronouncement of the Old 
Testament benediction. They, who could with- 
out any compunction of conscience, lift a sheep 
out of a pit on the Sabbath, could not tolerate the 
more humane conduct of the Saviour, in healing 
the crooked woman, the palsied man, the man 
that was born blind and the man with the with- 
ered hand on the Sabbaths; even though the 
logic He used in His own defense was absolutely 
unanswerable. While the Pharisee could lead an 



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ox or an ass to the watering as an act of mercy to 
the poor dumb brute: Jesus could say unto him, 
"And ought not this woman, being a daughter of 
Abraham, whom Satan hath bound lo these eigh- 
teen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sab- 
bath day?" While the Pharisees were ever ready 
to lift a sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath, as an 
act of mercy to the poor dumb brute : Jesus could 
say unto them, "And how much is a man better 
than a sheep?" Notwithstanding when Jesus 
had performed a cure upon the man having a 
withered hand, in a public meeting on the 
Sabbath day, the Pharisees in a white heat 
of passion left the room. "And the Pharisees went 
forth, and straightway took counsel with the He- 
rodians against Him, how they might destroy 
Him." 

THE HERODIANS. 

And who were the Herodians? We are all 
familiar with the atrocious conduct of the bloody 
Herod, when he slaughtered all the little children 
in Bethlehem of Judea from two years old and 
under, in his attempt to slay Jesus when he was 
a little child. The Pharisees joined themselves 
with the murderous followers of this same bloody 
Herod, in a covenant how they might now de- 



AND THE SABBATH. in 

stroy Jesus when he had grown to be a man, and 
all because he had made a man every whit whole 
on the Sabbath day. O ye hard hearted Phari- 
sees! How hardly shall ye escape the damnation 
of hell? 

THE SABBATH FOR MAN. 

"And He said unto them, the Sabbath was 
made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: 
Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the 
Sabbath." We desire to call the attention of our 
readers especially to the clause — The Sabbath 
was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 
Shall we reverse this important declaration of the 
Saviour? Then it will read, the man was made 
for the Sabbath and not the Sabbath for the man. 
It will not do to reverse the Divine order. God 
did not make the Sabbath first, and then make a 
man to suit the Sabbath. He first made a man 
to suit Himself, and immediately thereafter He 
made a Sabbath to suit the man. God rested 
from the exercise of His creative energy on the 
Sabbath: and man being created in the image of 
God in the moral qualities of his soul, was com- 
manded to be like God in His regard for 
the sacred day of rest. God performed 
six splendid days' work in six days. At 



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the end of six days, He saw the perfec- 
tion of His creative desire spread out before 
Him in universal display. At the early dawn of 
the first Sabbath, in the very beginning of the 
most resplendent day the world ever saw, while 
the Morning Stars did sing for joy, the Triune 
God did complacently, sweetly rest. It was then 
that the Word, surrounded by enraptured angelic 
hosts, in the audience of the one man, in univer- 
sal language, did proclaim all very good. While 
the vast universe was freshly animate with Di- 
vine energy, it was not only appropriate that God 
should rest, but that man should spend the first 
entire day of his being in blissful contemplation 
and unutterable adoration. God accomplished 
all his desire in six days. This was the best six 
days' work ever accomplished. It was unneces- 
sary that He should exercise His creative energy 
on the Sabbath. God did set for us the example. 
He worked six days and rested one. "For in 
six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on 
the seventh day He rested and was refreshed." 
He was complacent, satisfied, — not weary and 
rested. 'Tn six days the Lord made heaven and 
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested 
the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the 
Sabbath day and hallowed it." He then com- 



AND THE SABBATH. 113 

manded the creature fashioned after His own 
image, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it 
holy." The law of the Sabbath was written in the 
very fiber of man's being, more than four thousand 
y^ears before the incarnation of the Lord of the Sab- 
bath. The Lord of the Sabbath seemed to say unto 
the man : Thou art in the likeness of God, work six 
days, rest one. Work six days, rest one. Work 
six days, rest one. Be obedient unto the Divine 
command, and thou shalt attain unto God's full 
blessing. Be obedient unto the Divine command, 
and thou wilt accomplish more in six days, work- 
ing reasonable hours, and live longer to enjoy 
the fruits of your labor; than if like the notori- 
ous Atheist, thou shouldst forget God and regard 
all days alike, and labor seven days in the week 
and longer hours in the day. This statement 
seems to be in accord with the declarations of 
some of our great life insurance companies. 
These great business corporations seem to have 
arrived at their conclusions, without ever having 
looked between the lids of the Bible. They have 
declared that, "They would rather take risk on 
the life of the average Chritian man, who is 
privileged with resting one day in seven, in ad- 
dition to his nightly rest, and risk his living three 
score and ten years : than take an equal risk upon 



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the life of the average man, who is forced to la- 
bor seven days in the week, and long hours in the 
day, and risk his living sixty years." How ac- 
curately the most accurate business on earth com- 
putes the mind of Christ on this most important 
question. There is just ten years of Sabbaths 
in three score and ten years. Our great insur- 
ance companies sound the tocsin, and we would 
to God, that the entire world of labor might take 
the alarm ere it be too late. Will our hardy sons of 
toil favor, or even tolerate, an industrial policy 
which when operated, will cut short ten years, the 
bread-earning power of the great army of labor- 
ers? Will they favor, or even tolerate a policy 
which will compel them to labor seven days in the 
week for less than six days' pay? Will they favor 
a policy that will furnish a little carnal amuse- 
ment to the beer-guzzling Turners, while the great 
army of labor is being reduced to serfdom? God 
pity the iniquitous heads of capital, that can tran- 
quilly sit at the communion table, and thank heav- 
en that they are not like the poor Publicans, whom 
they require to toil seven days in the week and 
long hours in the day, — for less than six days' 
pay. "Go to, now, ye rich men, weep and howl 
for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your 
riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth- 



AND THE SABBATH. 115 

eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the 
rust of them shall be a witness against you, and 
shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped 
treasure together for the last days. Behold the 
hire of 'the laborers who have reaped down your 
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : 
and the cries of them which have reaped are en- 
tered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye 
have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wan- 
ton : ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of 
slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the 
just; and he does not resist you. * * * Be 
patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of 
the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for 
the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long 
patience for it, until he receive the early and latter 
rain. Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts : for 
the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." Thus to-day 
four million five hundred thousand white and black 
adult slaves are forced by the merciless trusts — 
the wanton heads of capital, to perform excessive 
labor seven days in the week and long hours in 
the day, for less than six days' pay. The covetous 
heads of capital, in their frantic rush to grasp the 
whole world of material wealth, will pay their out- 
raged employes less for seven days and long hours 
of service than the Christian capitalist is willing to 



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pay for six days and reasonable hours of labor. 
I call upon all the sons and daughters of toil in 
the United States of America, ere it be too late, 
to arise in the true spirit of your inherent, God- 
given rights, and assert your eternal independence 
in the establishment of the security of your day of 
rest. There is one day in the week in which we 
should know no master — saving the Lord Jesus 
Christ — the supreme, independent Lord of the 
Sabbath. 

"the sabbath was made for man/' 

The two words — "was made" refer to the insti- 
tution of the Sabbath in the Garden of Eden. We 
may now ask, Of what use could the Sabbath be 
to man in the Garden of Eden, in his original state 
of innocence and happiness? We answer, It was 
a day in which he could tranquilly rest and enjoy 
sweet fellowship and holy comunion with his 
Maker, in the cool of the groves which were 
"God's first temples" and thereby cherish the 
Divine likeness in which he was created. We may 
also inquire, Of what use could the Sabbath be to 
man after the fall? We answer, It was a day in 
which he might seek for true repentance, and the 
recovery of the image which he had lost in the 
fall. This process of reasoning seems to be so 



AND THE SABBATH. 117 

true to the great plan of redemption: that it 
scarcely seems possible that a man can be saved, 
so long as he remains hostile to the benign insti- 
tution of the Sabbath. We believe there is not 
the soul of a single redeemed person in heaven at 
this moment, — of a person who died in impenitent 
rebellion against Jesus and the Sabbath. The con- 
verse must also be true. We believe there is not 
the soul of a single lost person in perdition at this 
moment, — of a person who died loving Jesus and 
the Sabbath. But some one may say, "I fear you 
have made a mistake. How about the thief on the 
cross ? I believe he died and that his soul went to 
heaven, and perhaps he never kept a Sabbath in his 
life, — for thieves in general do not remember the 
Sabbath day to keep it holy." Our critics may not 
hold us to a statement which we did not make. 
We did not say, That there is not the soul of a 
single redeemed person in heaven at this moment, 
of a person who never kept a Sabbath in his life. 
O'ur critics are responsible for this illogical and 
perverted statement. We did make the statement, 
and we now repeat the same with accumulative 
emphasis. We believe that there is not the soul 
of a single redeemed person in heaven at this mo- 
ment, — of a person who died in impenitent rebel- 
lion against Jesus and the Sabbath. The thief 



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upon the cross died, and his soul went immedi- 
ately to heaven: but he did not die in rebellion 
against Jesus and the Sabbath. When he saw the 
wonderful phenomena — the heavens grow black 
as sack-cloth of hair at noon-tide : he was immedi- 
ately convinced that Jesus was the Son of God. 
In instantaneous conversion, from the warmest 
depths of a loving regenerate soul he offered the 
prayer, "Lord remember me when Thou comest 
into Thy kingdom." It was necessary that his 
prayer should be immediately answered, for the 
time was short. "And Jesus said unto him, ver- 
ily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with Me 
in paradise." He died happy, and his soul soared 
aloft into the realms of eternal bliss, and perhaps 
he had never kept a Sabbath in his life ; but as 
we have already remarked ; he did not die in re- 
bellion against Jesus and the Sabbath. If by 
some miracle his life had been spared three days 
longer, and he had been let down from the cross ; 
he would have kept the next Sabbath from the 
supreme motive of love to Christ. The individ- 
ual person learns to remember the Sabbath day 
to keep it holy very soon before his conversion, or 
immediately thereafter. According to the 
economy of the plan of human redemption, it 
would be difficult for man to be saved without a 



AND THE SABBATH. 119 

Sabbath in his life. Surely we are able to verify 
the truth of the above statement. There is not the 
soul of a single redeemed person in heaven at this 
moment, of a person who died in rebellion against 
Jesus and the Sabbath. Moreover. There is not 
the soul of a single lost person in perdition at this 
moment, of a person who died loving Jesus and 
the Sabbath. The great and important question, 
of how a person wills to act on the Sabbath, seems 
not only to truly index his character, but to in- 
dicate his future destiny. It appears to indicate 
his position in the judgment; as to whether he 
belongs to the sheep of God's own pasture, or to 
the goats of the devil's own herding. All men 
should come to regard the holy Sabbath, as the 
fundamental and necessary institution, upon 
which, all Christian endeavor must securely rest, 
in the great attempt to win the world for Christ. 
In the beginning — Jesus — the blessed Lord of the 
Sabbath, hundreds of years before his own incar- 
nation, in the beneficence of His gracious charac- 
ter, gave to our race, fresh from the mint of 
heaven, this indispensable institution. 



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THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN. 
* * * * * * 

A LOGICAL, NATURAL AND SCRIPTURAL REASON FOR 
THE CHANGE 

OF 
THE SABBATH. 

The Seventh Day Adventists, have not only 
been uniting their forces with the American Secu- 
lar Union and the German Turners for the over- 
throw of our Sabbath laws : but, have been con- 
stantly striving to block the arguments of the 
Christian forces regarding the change of the Sab- 
bath from the seventh to the first day of the week. 
We are familiar with the challenge, "Show unto 
us a direct 'Thus saith the Lord' for the change of 
the Sabbath, and we will thereafter worship God 
on the first Day of the Week." Without at- 
tempting to criticise in any degree King James's 
translation of the New Testament, if there be any 
scholars among them: we ask them to translate 
orally in the presence of any body of scholarly 
men, or to write it out in document form for the 
perusal of scholarly readers, a correct translation 
of the first verse of the twenty-eighth chapter of 
Matthew, and we believe they will vary but slight- 
ly, if any, from the following rendering: "In 



AND THE SABBATH. 121 

the end of the Sabbaths, as it began to dawn to- 
ward the first of the Sabbaths, came Mary Magda- 
lene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher." 
This declaration appears to us like a direct, "Thus 
saith the Lord," for the change of the Sabbath. 
What Sabbaths were then coming to an end ? Sure- 
ly, none other than the Sabbaths of the Old Tes- 
tament Dispensation. What Sabbaths were then 
having a beginning? Surely, none other than the 
Sabbaths of the New Testament Dispensation. 
This indeed, appears to be a direct, "Thus saith 
the Lord," for the change of the Sabbath, and was 
repeatedly emphasized by the worthy example of 
the Lord of the Sabbath Himself. "Example is 
better than precept," and, "Actions speak louder 
than words." 

THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN. 

The two words — "was made" — as we have al- 
ready remarked, refer to the institution of the 
Sabbath. And since we are to pursue the discus- 
sion of the institution of the Sabbath no further, 
we will now expunge the two words, "was made" 
— in order that we may conduct an English word 
analysis comment, upon the remaining words in 
the statement. The statement will then read, — 



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THE SABBATH FOR MAN. 

There are but four words left now in this state- 
ment, and we may very properly inquire : What 
are the two more important words? We believe 
our readers will all select the words Sabbath and 
man as the more important words. And how im- 
portant is the word Sabbath in its relationship to 
the other words? It is as important as is the 
great occurrence in the life of God and man which 
it celebrates during a dispensation. And what 
great occurrence in the life of God and man, did 
the Sabbath memorialize or celebrate during the 
Old Testament Dispensation? It memorialized 
the greatest work of God during that dispensa- 
tion — the finished work of creation. On every 
recurring Sabbath for four thousand years, the 
highest incentive that moved man's adoration was 
the thought, that the God whom he worshiped 
was the great Creator of heaven and earth. How 
important is the word Sabbath in its relationship 
to the other words in the statement, when applied 
to the New Testament Dispensation? It is just 
as important, as is the great occurrence in the life 
of Christ, which it memorializes and celebrates. 
And what great occurrence in the life of Christ 
does it celebrate ? It celebrates the finished work 



AND THE SABBATH. 123 

of redemption, the proof of which was given to 
the world very early, in the beginning of the New 
Testament Sabbaths, when Jesus arose from the 
dead. Speaking reverently, the New Testament 
Sabbath, is to continue to memoralize and cele- 
brate in its weekly recurrence on the first day of 
the week, the greatest occurrence in the life of 
God, that shall ever effect the persons of the God 
Head, during the dispensations of the ages of an 
unmeasured and immeasurable eternity. It does 
appear, that the New Testament Sabbath cele- 
brates a greater event in the life of God, than the 
Old Testament Sabbath ever celebrated; — The 
finished work of redemption. It memorializes, 
celebrates and forever keeps in memory, the com- 
pletion of the greatest work that God had ever 
undertaken to accomplish. 

THE GREATER WORK OF GOD. 

The greater work of God, because of its greater 
cost. It cost God more to finish the work of re- 
demption, than it did to finish the work of crea- 
tion. It cost God nothing but pleasure to create all 
things; for "The morning stars sang for joy;" 
"And God saw everything that He had made, 
and, behold it was very good." O the cost of the 
working out of the plan of redemption! The 



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great orb of day, and even nature herself, did 
veil their faces, at the great outrages perpetrated 
upon our Saviour by His enemies in the hour of 
His crucifixion. Sympathetic nature! The sun 
was turned to the appearance of blood, the moon 
withdrew herself from shining, the heavens grew 
black as sack-cloth of hair at noontide, and when 
He had offered the prayer, "Father, forgive them ; 
for they know not what they do." And, last of 
all, when, He said, "It is finished?" "The veil 
of the temple was rent from the top to the bot- 
tom ;" the earth did quake and the rocks did rend, 
to tell the world, that Jesus had finished a greater 
work, than the work of creation. By the emphasis 
of the rent rocks, the opened sepulchers, the resur- 
rection of Christ, and His own example, we call 
upon all men to the end of time, to celebrate on 
the first day of the week, the greater work of God 
— the finished work of redemption. For why 
should we continue to celebrate the work, which 
cost God least, while His greater work, which cost 
Him most, should forever remain uncelebrated. 
We believe it cost the only begotten and well be- 
loved Son of God, infinitely more to provide sal- 
vation for a soul, than it did to create a soul. We 
believe, the Christian has now, a far more intense- 
ly profound reason for adoring and magnifying 



AND THE SABBATH. 125 

the great name of our God on the first day of the 
week than ever thrilled the heart of the devout 
Jew, in the worship of God on the seventh day 
of the week. May our readers, in a new vision, 
in a word analysis method of studying a portion 
of Scripture, discover the importance of the word 
— Sabbath, in its connection ; because of what the 
institution named memoralizes and celebrates 
during a dispensation. Have we not then, furnish- 
ed to our readers, a Scriptural, logical and natural 
reason for the change of the Sabbath from the 
seventh to the first day of the week ? 

THE SABBATH FOR MAN. 

Our readers had also selected the word man, as 
of paramount importance in its relationship with 
the other words, in the above statement. And 
how important is the word man in its relationship 
as already indicated ? The word man, in its pres- 
ent use, is as important as is the creature named, — 
the creature for whom God made the Sabbath. 
And the creature named is as important, as He is 
in every part of His component being. The com- 
plete man, for whom God made the Sabbath, 
comes pretty nearly being a trinity in one being. 
Our standard authors on Physiology and Anat- 
omy, appear to write, as thought the physical man 



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was the one abstract being alone, which they de- 
sired to comprehend and fully understand. Our 
great authors in the study of Mental Philosophy, 
and mental phenomena, appear to write, in their 
abstracted manner ; as though the intellectual man, 
was the only man they knew, — the only man in 
the universe. And, our standard authors in their 
marvelous works on Psychology, appear to write ; 
as though the moral man, was the only man whom 
God had made, — the only created being, worthy 
of their profoundest thought and study. It re- 
quires these three in one, — the physical, the in- 
tellectual and the moral man, to constitute the one 
man, for whom, God made the Sabbath. The 
Sabbath was made for man in all his component 
being : and, if from the supreme motive of love to 
Christ, — the blessed Lord of the Sabbath, he will 
remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, in obe- 
dience to the divine command ; he will be a better 
man physically, intellectually, morally, domesti- 
cally, socially, industrially, temporally, spiritually 
and eternally ; than if he continually wills to pro- 
fane God's most holy day. If we were able to 
assemble the whole world of mankind to-day, in 
one vast congregation ; placing all the devout Sab- 
bath observers on our right hand, and all who will 
to profane the Sabbath on our left : and if we were 



AND THE SABBATH. 127 

then enabled to see somewhat as God sees, what 
a picture would unfold itself to our vision. If 
we were able then, to impanel a jury, consisting 
of six Atheists and six devils, with the arch 
enemy himself as foreman and spokesman : when 
they would take a thorough look at the two divis- 
ions of the vast assembly, if they should all agree 
according to an honest conviction : they would be 
compelled to hand down the unanimous verdict : 
That those on the right hand were the sheep of 
God's own pasture, while all those on the left hand 
were the goats of the devil's own herding. But, 
some shrewd devil would object, like some of 
our so-called statesmen, saying, "While it is evi- 
dent to every member of this notable jury, that 
all those on the right hand are peaceful, intelli- 
gent, tranquil, happy, clothed and in their right 
minds, and Tiave no need of policemen to keep 
them quiet : and, while on the left hand, there are 
thieves, gamblers, drunkards, adulterers, whore- 
mongers, murderers and lovers and makers of lies, 
in company with the more refined disciples of In- 
gersoll ; yet it will not do to render a unanimous 
verdict, in favor of the strict observance of the 
Sabbath, lest it turn to be a matter of the gravest 
discouragement to our purchaseable friends at 
Harrisburg, Albany, Washington, D. C, and 



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everywhere else, in their praiseworthy efforts to 
repeal the old Blue Laws of the fanatics. I move 
you therefore, that we bring in a unanimous ver- 
dict, that the Sabbath is a beneficial institution, 
resulting in favor and advantage to man physi- 
cally, intellectually, morally, domestically, social- 
ly, industrially, financially, temporally, spirit- 
ually and eternally; — if our laws be so con- 
structed and construed as to leave all men who 
are not commendably required to labor seven days 
in the week for less than six days' pay, to the 
greater advantage of our public benefactors : free, 
absolutely free ; to spend the entire day according 
to the desire and inclination of each individual 
person. Are we all agreed ? We are all agreed, and 
our fore-devil shall be our spokesman. It would 
of all probability be reported, that when this ver- 
dict would be reached, that the well-smoked vaults 
in hell would ring, and ring again, with demoniac 
shouts of applause, until all the devils in the bot- 
tomless pit would grow silent from sheer exhaus- 
tion. Reference also was made, by a member of 
the jury — in a jocular way ; "That Robert Inger- 
soll in his day, was as good looking and intelligent 
as was any of the thorough devout Sabbath ob- 
servers." If he was, he was in bad company, and 
was ever found skipping upon the mountains of 



AND THE SABBATH. 129 

vanity, with the licentious goats. Where did In- 
gersoll attain to his wisdom and intelligence? 
True, he had natural intellect; yet, had he been 
so unfortunate as to have been born in Central 
Africa or farther India; where there is no God, 
no Bible, no church, no minister, no Sabbath : it is 
our candid opinion, that he would have lived and 
died in obscurity ; and the world would never have 
known a Robert Ingersoll. His great fortune lay 
in his being born in a Christian land ; in the midst 
of a Christian civilization; where there were 
churches, and Bibles, and Sabbaths, and minis- 
ters, and colleges and other institutions of learn- 
ing. In the midst of this splendid environment, 
he was born, educated, nurtured to maturity and 
schooled into prominence, and afterward, like a 
bastard son, he cursed the mother that nurtured 
him. Ingersoll may have been a great man physi- 
cally and intellectually when he cursed God, the 
church, the Bible and the Sabbath: but in the 
moral conception of his soul, we believe he was 
the smallest man in his generation. We lose noth- 
ing, by conceding that he was physically and in- 
tellectually great. Yet, he was but little more, 
in his development, than the two sides of a tri- 
angular being. If from childhood; as he had 
ample opportunity, he had learned to love the 



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Lord Jesus Christ, and had labored to develop 
the moral attributes of his soul: he would have 
won a championship for being great, on the three 
sides of his component being. He would not only 
have become a triangularly bright and shining 
light in the world ; but, in the celestial world, he 
would have continued to shine, as one of God's 
bright luminaries, forever and ever. But now, 
(except by some unrevealed process, he may have 
been brought to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ 
in the hour of dissolution,) his soul did plunge 
into the impenetrable blackness of darkness to 
be buried in oblivion, from the sight of God for- 
evermore, and all because; he had no God, no 
Christ, no religion, no Bible, no Sabbath. 

EPISODE. 

Whether in the body or out of the body, the 
following episode has fixed itself in our memory 
as a real occurrence. Some fifteen years ago, 
it was our good fortune, to enjoy the exquisite 
pleasure, to spend a few days in that indescribably 
delightful summer resort — Manitou, which, in the 
midst of nature's sparkling brooklets and gushing 
fountains, nestles so sweetly in the bosom of the 
foot-hills, at the very base of the prince of the 
Rocky Mountain range. In the midst of all these 



AND THE SABBATH. 131 

splendid proofs of God's creative energy, one 
might scarcely expect to be able to discover an 
Atheist or an Agnostic. We were enabled, in- 
deed, to discover one. Chameleon-like, he was 
hid away, together with God's more rational 
creatures, surrounded by the rugged proofs of 
the existence of one supreme and all-wise Creator. 
He was designated to me as a man, and, he was 
the proprietor of the sunniest of the sun-lit cot- 
tages. His noble wife, was a devout Christian 
lady — a consecrated member and worker in the 
Methodist Episcopal church. We had gone, in 
company with a number of others, to the mid- 
week prayer-meeting. After the prayer-meeting 
was over, as we were returning to our home in 
the cottage: we were earnestly conversing, as to 
the many advantages that come to a people from 
the regular attendance upon the church services 
and the prayer-meeting. Our good landlady re- 
marked, saying, "I was very much interested in 
your most helpful and instructive address in the 
prayer-meeting. I wish with all my heart, every 
man could see and embrace the truth as you do. 
What a blessed world we would have, if every per- 
son could believe in God, in Christ, in Christian- 
ity, in the Bible and the Sabbath? I am sorry 
it is not so: my husband is an Atheist. He is a 



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devout disciple of Ingersoll ; and if he discovers 
that you are a Christian man, he will be sure to 
attack you in his own house and in the presence 
of company. Nothing pleases him so well as to 
win a victory for Atheism, by silencing a Chris- 
tian man in company. I wish to put you on your 
guard. 'To be forewarned is to be forearmed.' 
If he should make an attack upon the Christian 
religion, I hope that you may be able, by the power 
of the Spirit, to so effectually silence him, that he 
will never open his mouth again against Christ 
and all that is precious in this life. I hope you 
may set him thinking, so as to make it the turn- 
ing point in his life. O how happy I would be 
if my husband were a Christian ?" The opportun- 
ity soon came, in the presence of a delightful com- 
pany in his own parlor. The conversation turned 
inadvertently to the subject of religion. In turn 
the husband and proprietor, poured out his senti- 
ments in bitter and abusive attack upon Christian- 
ity, the church, the Bible and the Sabbath. I 
prayed that some one might break the unbearable 
silence. No one uttered a word in defense of 
Christ's kingdom. My soul did burn with right- 
eousness indignation and power of utterance was 
given unto me. I said, will you give audience to 
me sir? We have heard you give vent to your 



AND THE SABBATH. 133 

feelings against that which we hold dear and 
sacred. Permit me to ask you a single question : 
What would you do with Christianity ; the church, 
the Bible and the holy Sabbath if you had the 
power, Sir? He replied, "I would annihilate 
them." Do you expect to live long enough in our 
Christian country, to be able to effectually accom- 
plish your desire? "I do not." Will you permit 
me then, to do you a life-long favor. Will you 
permit me to furnish you with an environment, 
similar to that which you declare you would pro- 
cure for yourself if you had the power? I will 
furnish to you the desired environment. You 
have a splendid property. It is very desirable. 
Put it on the market. Sell it. Put the money 
in your pocket and come with me. I will con- 
duct you away from the environment, which is to 
you so distasteful. I will furnish to you an envir- 
onment similar to that which you declare, you 
would procure for yourself, if you had the power. 
I will locate you where there is no God ; no Chris- 
tianity ; no church ; no Bible ; no Sabbath, — in the 
dark continent of Africa, or farther India. Let 
me invest your money there, and locate your fam- 
ily there. Will you go, sir? He was silent. The 
cause of Christ prevailed. He was unwilling to 
risk the change. He was unwilling to risk the 



134 CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT 

value of his property. He was unwilling to risk 
the security of his own life, together with the life 
and future happiness of his wife and children. 
He was unwilling to separate himself, together 
with his effects, from the splendid environment 
which a long continued Christian civilization had 
procured for him. It was this long continued en- 
vironment, which rendered them all permanently 
secure in their persons and their effects. He 
knew full well, that our Christian civilization, 
was the true guarantee of his inherent right to 
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We 
advised him, in a closing remark, never again to 
open his mouth against God, and Christ, the 
Christian religion and the holy Sabbath, until he 
was thoroughly willing to migrate and to make 
the proposed change. It does appear, that no man 
can fully appreciate, the greatness of the security 
and blessing, which Christianity brings to him 
in his person and in his effects ; until he be con- 
verted, and until, from the motive of love to 
Christ, he learns to reverence God's sanctuary, 
and is unreservedly willing from the same mo- 
tive to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
And here ends our episode. 



AND THE SABBATH. 135 

THE SABBATH FOR MAN. 

We have taken special pains to emphasize the 
importance of the words Sabbath and man, in the 
relationship, which they bear to the other words 
in the foregoing- statement. It now devolves 
upon us to discover the importance of the definite 
article which introduces the statement. The in- 
dex finger, upon the mile-board at the cross-roads, 
has a definite office to perform; inasmuch as it 
points definitely to the place, which the weary 
traveler desires to reach. So is the definite article 
in its office. In the above statement, the definite 
article the, appears to accompany the index finger 
of our Lord Jesus Christ; as he reaches down 
from heaven, and definitely touches a day in the 
week, and announces, that that day was made for 
man. He does not touch definitely with His in- 
dex finger — the Monday, and announce that the 
Monday was made for man : nor the Wednesday, 
nor the Saturday. But, in the use of the definite 
article the, He reaches down from heaven, with 
His index finger, as it were, and definitely touches 
the holy Sabbath, and announces that the Sabbath 
was made for man, if he will but constantly re- 
member the same, to keep it holy, according to 
the divine commandment. He definitely touches 



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the first day in the week, and announces to the 
whole world of mankind : that the day which now 
performs the office of memorializing the finished 
work of redemption ; was made for man to keep 
holy. We take this to be the God intended use 
of the definite article the, in its relationship to the 
other words in the foregoing statement. 

THE SABBATH FOR MAN. 

In our word analysis of this portion of Scrip- 
ture, there is but one word left now, which we de- 
sire to emphasize. Shall we pass it by, because 
it is a very little word? We know that many 
scholars will declare, that the preposition, as to its 
office, is the most insignificant word in the lan- 
guage. They will even declare, that it might be 
omitted from the structure of a sentence, were it 
not for the sake of euphony. We should always 
remember however: that when the Holy Spirit 
breathes a preposition into a portion of Scripture ; 
it is just as important in its office as is the noun, 
pronoun or verb. When we come to conduct a 
word analysis of a portion of Scripture, we dis- 
cover that the preposition is as important, as is 
any word in the language. If we will omit a 
single word in such analysis ; we will surely lose 
a portion of the marrow of the teaching which the 



AND THE SABBATH. 137 

text is designed to set forth. What then, is the 
significance of the preposition for, in the above 
statement ? It means, in view of ; with reference 
to ; because of ; in behalf of ; concerning, &c. : — all 
of which may be reduced to the one primary mean- 
ing, in favor of. These three words, appear to 
represent the primary definition for the little pre- 
position. We will now expunge the preposition 
and insert its primary meaning. The statement 
will then read "The Sabbath was made in favor of 
man." We will now transpose the statement and 
we will have a sentence in good English. It will 
then read, "The Sabbath was made in man's 
favor." This final rendering appears to be the 
briefest embodiment of the mind of Christ regard- 
ing man and the Sabbath. O the marvelous 
beauty of the world of thought, that attaches itself 
to this subject; from the study of the office of the 
little preposition, in its relationship to the other 
words in the statement. It enables us in some 
degree to magnify the unutterable value and im- 
portance of our New Testament Sabbath. It ap- 
pears to magnify the love of God the Father, in 
sending His only begotten and well beloved Son 
into the world, to die, that we might live. It 
celebrates the perfect love of Christ, when "He 
bowed His head upon the cross and cried, Tt is 



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finished.' " This same love did burst into newness 
of life, in the bursting of the tomb, very early, on 
the first day of the week. The whole subject, thus 
considered, appears to reflect back upon a sin-sick 
world, the benediction of His glorious ascension. 
It appears to reflect back, the same infinite love 
and divine compassion, from the throne, to which 
he has ascended, where "He ever liveth to make 
intercession." It afforded an opportunity, for the 
manifestation of the love of the Holy Spirit, as 
He appeared in the cloven tongues of fire on the 
day of Pentecost. Every recurring New Testa- 
ment Sabbath, may very properly be regarded, as 
the manifestation of the love of a triune God. The 
Sabbath, viewed in this light, is the rainbow of 
promise: and premonates the bestowment of all 
new covenant blessing, upon the true household 
of faith. It is not only designed to celebrate the 
finished work of redemption, the proof of which, 
burst upon man's vision in the morning of our 
Saviour's resurrection : but, after the resurrection 
of the saints, it will be merged into one unending 
Sabbath in heaven. It will then continue not only 
to memorialize the finished work of redemption 
as was seen in the resurrection of Christ: but it 
will also memorialize the resurrection and glorifi- 
cation of the innumerable company of the re- 



AND THE SABBATH. 139 

deemed, whose resurrection, we believe will also 
occur very early, in the first day of the week. If 
we can succeed in schooling all men to remember 
the Sabbath day to keep it holy, from the supreme 
motive of love to Christ, according to the signifi- 
cance which the little preposition attaches to the 
subject: it will then result in super-abundant 
blessing to man, when he lies down and when he 
rises up; when he goes out and when he comes 
in ; in his basket and in his store ; in the showers 
of heaven and in the dews that distill at night ; in 
summer and in winter; in seed-time and in har- 
vest, and in the blessed sun-shine that floods our 
world. 

We pray that the church of Christ may awake 
from the deadly stupor of her lethargy : and being 
rejuvenated by a fresh Pentecostal anointing, she 
may not only succeed in saving our Sabbath ; but 
in bringing men everywhere into such relationship 
to God and to the perfect law of liberty ; that the 
redeemed multitudes will voluntarily and joyfully 
remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, from 
the praiseworthy and supreme motive of love to 
Christ. Then the Sabbath will result in man's 
favor in every conceivable manner, as is but par- 
tially indicated in the diagram at the opening of 
this chapter. Then, there will not only be heav- 



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enly communion, but there will be happy family 
reunions in all the families of the earth, once 
every seven days. The people will then come to 
realize as never before, that when the holy Sab- 
bath is observed by all the people according to the 
Divine command, it will tend to promote, health, 
wealth, grace, honor, character, influence, wis- 
dom, power, prosperous life, eternal life: and 
Jesus will be owned and reverenced as the Lord 
of the Sabbath, and all will joyfully realize that 
"the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for 
the Sabbath." 



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